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Health Coverage Takes Big Hit With Pandemic-Related Job Cuts | Health News

October 13, 2020

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter

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TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Up to 7.7 million U.S. workers lost jobs with employer-sponsored health insurance during the coronavirus pandemic, and 6.9 million of their dependents also lost coverage, a new study finds.

Workers in manufacturing, retail, accommodation and food services were especially hard-hit by job losses, but unequally impacted by losses in insurance coverage.

Manufacturing accounted for 12% of unemployed workers in June. But because the sector has one of the highest rates of employer-sponsored coverage at 66%, it accounted for a bigger loss of jobs with insurance (18%) and 19% of potential coverage loss when dependents are included.

Nearly 3.3 million workers in accommodation and food services had lost their jobs as of June — 30% of the industry’s workforce. But only 25% of workers in the sector had employer-sponsored insurance before the pandemic. Seven percent lost jobs with

Launched with big ambitions, California Sunday Magazine ends publication

October 12, 2020

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California Sunday Magazine, an ambitious publication inspired by the culture of the western United States, has ceased publication and laid off 11 employees, according to a statement by the Pop-Up / California Sunday Guild.

The move came after the Emerson Collective, a philanthropic and policy organization headed by Laurene Powell Jobs, decided to pull funding from California Sunday after five years, returning it to an independent company.

Neither the magazine nor the Emerson Collective offered an explanation for the split, though the latter released a brief statement: “In August, Emerson Collective and Pop-Up agreed to a mutual separation that included an additional substantial contribution from Emerson Collective to allow Pop-Up to operate independently and do so without oversight or control by Emerson Collective.”

Douglas McGray and Chas Edwards launched California Sunday in October 2014 with big ambitions. The goal was to produce long-form feature journalism, the sort found in a

The big lesson Suze Orman learned from her recent health scare

October 12, 2020

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Suze Orman leaving the hospital in July 2020, after surgery to remove a tumor from her spine.

Source: Kathy Travis

Suze Orman didn’t take her own advice, at least when it came to her health.

The New York Times best-selling author and personal finance expert had emergency surgery in July for a tumor on her spinal cord, after ignoring some troubling signs for several months prior.

“With money, the reason we don’t do the things we know we need to do is because we are afraid,” Orman said. “We are afraid of making mistakes.

“I was in that mode, but with my health,” added Orman, who is 69 and said she “should have known better.”

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Schafer: Debut novel by Rochester author takes on big pharma issues

October 8, 2020

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The question put to Rochester author Paul John Scott about his new novel was simple: Can it be this bad in the real world?

Scott, a veteran health and science writer, has written his first novel. Called “Malcharist,” it is a completely made-up story about a potentially dangerous drug being put on the market — with outsourced drug trial research, ghostwritten studies, lack of access to raw drug-trial data, and doctors essentially paid to champion new drugs.

It is fiction, right?

“As far as I know the basic mechanisms depicted in this … are all still humming along,” he said this week in an e-mail exchange. “But the book is indeed a heightened convergence of those practices for sure.”

Scott’s novel is the first published by Samizdat Health Writer’s Cooperative, a Canadian publisher addressing the broad category of health information. This publisher clearly thinks Scott has created a story grounded

Pence, Harris turn debate into one big health care dodge

October 8, 2020

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— Mike Pence and Kamala Harris spent much of the sole vice presidential debate sidestepping questions on several critical health care issues.

— President Donald Trump is promoting one of his coronavirus treatments as a “cure” and vowing to speed its authorization for emergency use.

— The New England Journal of Medicine is calling for Trump’s ouster in November, in a scathing

Launched with big ambitions, California Sunday Magazine ceases publication

October 8, 2020

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California Sunday Magazine, the ambitious publication inspired by the culture of the western United States, has ceased publication and laid off 11 employees, according to a statement by the Pop-Up / California Sunday Guild.

The move came after the Emerson Collective, a philanthropic and policy organization headed by Laurene Powell Jobs, decided to pull funding from California Sunday after five years, returning it to an independent company.

Neither the magazine nor the Emerson Collective offered an explanation for the split, though the latter released a brief statement: “In August, Emerson Collective and Pop-Up agreed to a mutual separation that included an additional substantial contribution from Emerson Collective to allow Pop-Up to operate independently and do so without oversight or control by Emerson Collective.”

Douglas McGray and Chas Edwards launched California Sunday in October 2014 with big ambitions. The goal was to produce long-form feature journalism, the sort that often happens

Personal resilience plays big part in heart health for Black Americans

October 7, 2020

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Black people who have a strong sense of psychological well-being may have better heart health, a new study indicates.

It suggests that feelings of optimism and a sense of purpose and control — hallmarks of psychosocial resilience — are more important to heart health than where people live, researchers said.

Lead researcher Tené Lewis, an associate professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, noted that differences in heart health between Black and White Americans have been documented for decades. But individual factors affecting Black Americans have not been well understood.

“Almost everything we know about Black Americans and their health focuses on deficits, yet we really need to begin to identify strengths,” she said. “Understanding which strengths matter most for Black Americans — and under which contexts — will allow us to develop the most appropriate and applicable public health interventions for this group.”

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For Black Americans, Personal Resilience Plays Big Part in Heart Health | Health News

October 7, 2020

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By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter

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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Black people who have a strong sense of psychological well-being may have better heart health, a new study indicates.

It suggests that feelings of optimism and a sense of purpose and control — hallmarks of psychosocial resilience — are more important to heart health than where people live, researchers said.

Lead researcher Tené Lewis, an associate professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, noted that differences in heart health between Black and white Americans have been documented for decades. But individual factors affecting Black Americans have not been well understood.

“Almost everything we know about Black Americans and their health focuses on deficits, yet we really need to begin to identify strengths,” she said. “Understanding which strengths matter most for Black Americans — and under which contexts — will allow us to develop

When will Big Lots, Planet Fitness, T.J. Maxx, Five Below and Chipotle open in Hershey?

October 7, 2020

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The owner of the Hershey Square shopping center said five new high-profile tenants will open their doors by next spring.

PennLive previously reported that Big Lots, Planet Fitness, T.J. Maxx and Five Below are coming to the former Kmart site in the Derry Township shopping center. A Chipotle Mexican Grill will open there as well.

Construction work to prepare the center for its new tenants began last month, said shopping center owner Heidenberg Properties.

Former Kmart store — The former Kmart store is located in Derry Township at the Hershey Square shopping center. (Daniel Urie, PennLive, File)

The Kmart closed in March 2019. From November through May, Heidenberg Properties said it executed 10-year lease agreements for more than 90,000 square feet of the site for T.J. Maxx, Big Lots, Five Below, and Planet Fitness. The Chipotle will be built on a new pad site in front of Weis Markets and will include a drive-thru

big health problems lead to big health spending

October 7, 2020

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The pandemic – and developments in health care – have forced the Commonwealth government to commit to a massive increase in spending on health care this year.

In the 2019-20 budget, the Commonwealth promised an increase of A$540 million in health spending in 2020-21. In this year’s version, delivered by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg last night, the promise is an order of magnitude greater: an uplift of $5.347 billion since the last economic statement.

During 2020-21 and 2021-22, likely to be the biggest years for the COVID-19 response, the Commonwealth is promising almost $10 billion of extra spending. Never before has the federal government opened the health purse strings to this extent.

Although there are 35 items in the health budget measures table – all detailed in a 163-page “Stakeholder Pack” – just five of them account for 94% of the increase in spending.

1. Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)

The government