Healthcare Happenings in April 2022

Greetings!

We hope that you are staying safe during these difficult times of uncertainty and those you care about are healthy. Please remember to continue to wash your hands often, and to follow the CDC guidelines.

This newsletter contains articles from Axios, Insurance Newsnet & EBN. All of which contain extensive information relevant to the current day situations.

This month we're also including in this newsletter a copy of our latest blog "Many Older Adults Delayed Dental Care During Pandemic".

Many Older Adults Delayed Dental Care During Pandemic

Surveys of Medicare beneficiaries offer signs pointing to a likely surge in oral disease among older Americans that can be traced to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Workers Are Changing Health Plans More Than Ever

Almost 70 million Americans quit, were fired, retired or otherwise left their job in 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Why it matters: The job market churn inevitably disrupts many people's health coverage, and the pandemic kicked that churn into overdrive.

By the numbers: The BLS does not measure whether people had health insurance at their jobs before they left. Read More

The Best of Both Worlds': How Hybrid Work is Preventing Burnout

Sometimes the best way to improve employees' outlook on work is to give them the freedom on how to manage it.

When comparing burnout in employees working in fully remote, fully in-person or in hybrid settings, employees given the autonomy to choose between environments thrive, according to analytics platform Perceptyx. Hybrid employees are almost twice as likely to feel energized by their work than their counterparts who spend 100% of their time in either environment. Read More

Life Insurers See Highest Period Of Growth In 5 Years

Fitch Ratings-Chicago/New York-25 February 2022: U.S. life insurers saw their highest single period of growth over the past five years in 2021, according to Fitch Ratings’ new GAAP Results dashboard. Pre-tax operating income rose approximately 45% on an aggregate basis from 2020, and the average operating ROE in Fitch’s universe increased to 13.4% at year-end 2021 from 9.6% in 2020. Read More

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