Choosing the Perfect Plan: Slater Agency / Statewide Health Insurance helps clients navigate the world of health insurance policies

Choosing the Perfect Plan: Slater Agency / Statewide Health Insurance helps clients navigate the world of health insurance policies

Choosing a health insurance policy can often seem intimidating and overwhelming, but with the help of the dedicated experts at Slater Agency / Statewide Health Insurance, it doesn’t have to be. Located at 6606 Broadway St., Ste. 102 in Pearland, Craig Slater started the business under Farmers Insurance Agency in 2003 after a 20-year career …

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Experts call for overhaul of pharmaceutical policies to ensure drug safety

Experts call for overhaul of pharmaceutical policies to ensure drug safety

Health experts in Poland have issued recommendations to the government calling for specific measures to increase drug safety and boost domestic production. Medicine safety encompasses the entire journey of pharmaceutical products, from production facilities to the hands of patients in pharmacies and hospitals. This goes beyond just manufacturing medicines, as Ukasz Szmulski, director of the …

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Idaho residents can buy health insurance policies through a state exchange by December 15 – Idaho Capital Sun

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Idaho residents can now purchase health and dental insurance through Idaho’s health care exchange, Your Health Idaho, for policies in 2024. Your Health Idaho, which offers tax credits to Idahoans based on their income, began open enrollment last week, October 15. Registrations will remain open until December 15 at midnight. Outside of the once-a-year open …

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OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter Highlights Importance of HIPAA Sanctions Policies

OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter Highlights Importance of HIPAA Sanctions Policies

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently offered covered entities and business associates (regulated entities) some not-so-subtle reminders in its October 2023 Cybersecurity Information Bulletin that effective sanctions policies can encourage HIPAA compliance. Regulated entities are required by HIPAA to implement sanctions policies in which they impose appropriate sanctions against their respective personnel who fail …

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If Obama and Biden’s health care policies are so good, why do costs continue to rise?

If Obama and Biden's health care policies are so good, why do costs continue to rise?

TThe costs of Obamacare and its Biden-era additions are becoming intolerable. When President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) bent legislative rules to pass Obamacare 13 years ago, critics rightly mocked their claims that it would expand access to health insurance and would control costs. HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS SOAR IN 2023 Health care inflation …

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Minnesota leads the pack in some prenatal and early childhood policies – Minnesota Reformer

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Minnesota’s policies are more supportive of expectant parents and young children than other states, but there is still room for improvement, according to a team of Vanderbilt researchers. The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at Vanderbilt University evaluates the impact of public policy measures on child and family well-being. Tons of evidence shows that first years …

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