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9 months ago

Hospitality sector expects busier terraces but staff shortage continues

NL Times

Now that the first officially warm day of the year has arrived, cafés and restaurants expect busier terraces. Although turnover in the hospitality sector grew strongly last year, profit margins were under pressure, partly due to higher energy and wage costs. KHN president Marijke Vuik said in January that the hospitality sector would have to charge more for food, drinks …

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1 year ago

Dutch hospitality sector struggling; Fewer restaurants, cafes for first time in 8 years

NL Times

High personnel, energy, and rent costs put a massive damper on the Dutch hospitality sector’s first full year with no lockdowns after the coronavirus pandemic. Hospitality companies made less profit in 2023, and the number of catering establishments fell for the first time in eight years, trade association KHN said, NU.nl reports. Revenues in the sector rose 14 percent last …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Hospitality industry also opposes Amsterdam's plans for erotic center

NL Times

The Amsterdam branch of the hospitality association KHN has joined the protest against the Dutch capital’s plans to close some window brothels in the Red Light District and open an Erotic Center. The spokesperson referred to the ban on smoking weed on the street in the Red Light District and earlier closing times for window brothels and catering establishments in …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Plastic cups, sauce packets the biggest challenge under new rules: Catering sector

NL Times

Drinking cups and sauce packets will be the “biggest challenges” for the hospitality industry from Saturday, July 1, when the new rules for single-use plastic take effect. “If that does not happen and, for example, the cups end up in the litter, then the legislation misses its target.” According to KHN, practice will show whether the new rules will work. …

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1 year, 9 months ago

For uninsured people with cancer, securing care can be like spinning a roulette wheel

Salon

Eighteen months after April Adcox learned she had skin cancer, she finally returned to Charleston's Medical University of South Carolina last May to seek treatment. If Adcox had developed breast or cervical cancer, she likely would have qualified for insurance coverage under a federal law that extends Medicaid eligibility to lower-income patients diagnosed with those two malignancies. For female patients …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Chronic pain patients struggle to get opioid prescriptions filled, even as CDC eases guidelines

CNN

KHN — Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain. The first CDC guidelines “put everybody on notice,” said Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, chair of the American Medical Association’s Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force. Taking into account the perspective of …

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1 year, 10 months ago

More young Colorado children are consuming marijuana despite efforts to stop them

Salon

The number of children — especially very young ones — ingesting marijuana is rising in Colorado despite regulations meant to keep edibles out of kids' hands, and state leaders said they have no plans to revisit those rules this year. However, the federal government has yet to create uniform protocols, and Colorado health officials haven't conveyed any plans to revise …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief

NPR

Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief Enlarge this image toggle caption Taylor Glascock for KHN and NPR Taylor Glascock for KHN and NPR Dozens of advocates for patients and consumers, citing widespread harm caused by medical debt, are pushing the Biden administration to take more aggressive steps to protect Americans from medical bills and …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Frail people are left to die in prison as judges fail to act on a law to free them

NPR

Frail people are left to die in prison as judges fail to act on a law to free them Enlarge this image toggle caption Julia Robinson for KHN Julia Robinson for KHN Jimmy Dee Stout was serving time on drug charges when he got grim news early last year. A federal compassionate release law allows imprisoned people to be freed …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Mark Cuban has been taking on the drug industry. But which one?

Raw Story

When billionaire Mark Cuban announced his attack on the pharmaceutical industry and its high-priced drugs in January 2021, it was met with cheers. His new company — the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., known as Cost Plus Drugs — has the “lowest prices on meds anywhere,” he said. Former basketballer and Twitter personality Rex Chapman said Cuban was “changing …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Why two states remain holdouts on distracted driving laws

Salon

Max Herrick pulled over on the interstate near Harrisonville, Missouri, on a spring night in 2020 to offer antifreeze to a woman whose car had overheated. Nevertheless, Missouri Republicans and Democrats introduced at least seven bills this session concerning hand-held phone use while driving — and road safety advocates think such legislation has a better chance of passing this year. …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Catering sector to blacklist people who misbehave in clubs, bars

NL Times

The catering sector will again use blacklists to keep troublemakers out of bars and clubs. The Dutch Data Protection Authority issued permits to 137 entrepreneurs in seven catering areas to use a blacklist complying with stricter privacy legislation. Catering entrepreneurs used blacklists for years in the past, but stopped after the introduction of the new privacy law in 2018. “It …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest

NPR

Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest Enlarge this image toggle caption Maskot/Getty Images Maskot/Getty Images After the nursing home where Leann Sample worked was bought by private investors, it started falling apart. Over seven years, The Villages of Orleans Health & Rehabilitation Center, located in western New York near Lake Ontario, paid nearly $16 million …

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1 year, 11 months ago

A baby spent 36 days at an in-network hospital. Why did her parents get a huge bill?

NPR

A baby spent 36 days at an in-network hospital. What gives: It took Kearney months of calls to Blue Cross and the two hospitals to find out why Lurie billed more than $14,000 for physician services: The physicians treating her daughter at Prentice Women's — an in-network hospital under her health plan — actually worked for a separate, out-of-network hospital. …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Did your health plan rip off Medicare?

Salon

Today, KHN has released details of 90 previously secret government audits that reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors. For nearly two decades, Medicare has paid the health plans using a billing formula that pays higher monthly rates for sicker patients and less for the healthiest ones. Since 2010, CMS has argued that overpayments …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Wave of rural nursing home closures grows amid staffing crunch

Salon

WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she'd lived comfortably for six years. In Iowa, 13 of the 15 nursing homes that closed in 2022 were in rural areas, according to the Iowa Health Care Association. Lori Porter, chief executive officer of the National Association of …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Rural seniors benefit from pandemic-driven remote fitness boom

Salon

MALMO, Minn. — Eight women, all 73 or older, paced the fellowship hall at Malmo Evangelical Free Church to a rendition of Daniel O'Donnell's "Rivers of Babylon" as they warmed up for an hourlong fitness class. "Virtually the whole field knows that offering in-person and remote programming — a full range of programming — is a great way to reach …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Bleeding and in pain, a pregnant woman in Louisiana couldn’t get answers

Salon

— When Kaitlyn Joshua found out she was pregnant in mid-August, she and her husband, Landon Joshua, were excited to have a second baby on the way. "They specifically said, 'We now no longer see women until they're at least 12 weeks,'" Joshua recalled. Both Woman's Hospital and Baton Rouge General said in statements to NPR that their pregnancy care …

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1 year, 11 months ago

With less access to paid leave, rural workers face hard choices about health, family

NPR

With less access to paid leave, rural workers face hard choices about health, family Enlarge this image toggle caption Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez/KHN Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez/KHN ELKO, Nev. — When Ruby B. Sutton found out she was pregnant in late 2021, it was hard to envision how her full-time job would fit with having a newborn at home. Sponsor Message Experts …

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2 years ago

During in-flight emergencies, sometimes airlines’ medical kits fall short

Salon

In March, a Frontier Airlines flight was headed from Phoenix to Las Vegas when a female passenger stopped breathing. While covid-19 ushered in new health and cleaning protocols designed to make airplane travel safer, incidents like Coley's raise questions about airlines' readiness for medical emergencies because of incomplete or insufficient medical kits and the training of flight crews, who often …

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2 years ago

'Medical cost-sharing' plan left this pastor on the hook for much of a $160,000 bill

NPR

'Medical cost-sharing' plan left this pastor on the hook for much of a $160,000 bill Enlarge this image toggle caption Bram Sable-Smith/KHN Bram Sable-Smith/KHN Kareen King calls it "the ultimate paradox": The hospital that saved her husband Jeff's heart also broke it. Instead of signing up for traditional health insurance, the Kings had joined what's called a "medical cost-sharing plan" …

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2 years ago

Hospitality sector struggling under staff shortages, high prices despite higher turnover

NL Times

Catering entrepreneurs are again making a higher turnover than before the coronavirus crisis, according to the industry association KHN. According to the KHN, the hospitality sector achieved a turnover of almost 26 billion euros last year, slightly higher than in 2019. That is the picture that prevailed, despite the increased costs and lower margins.” According to Willemsen, maintaining or increasing …

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2 years ago

Public health agencies try to restore trust as they fight misinformation

Salon

OKLAHOMA CITY — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against covid-19 slipping after an initially robust response. The tool found that many people in Oklahoma City didn't like the word "vaccinate" — a term featured prominently in the health department's marketing campaign. …

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2 years ago

What Germany’s coal miners can teach America about medical debt

Salon

PÜTTLINGEN, Germany — Almost every day, Dr. Eckart Rolshoven sees the long shadow of coal mining in his clinic near the big brownstone church that dominates this small town in Germany's Saarland. "It's a huge problem here," said Jessica Ice, executive director of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care. "Access to medical care with minimal costs for patients has been …

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Hospitality sector expects busier terraces but staff shortage continues

Dutch hospitality sector struggling; Fewer restaurants, cafes for first time in 8 years

Hospitality industry also opposes Amsterdam's plans for erotic center

Plastic cups, sauce packets the biggest challenge under new rules: Catering sector

For uninsured people with cancer, securing care can be like spinning a roulette wheel

Chronic pain patients struggle to get opioid prescriptions filled, even as CDC eases guidelines

More young Colorado children are consuming marijuana despite efforts to stop them

Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief

Frail people are left to die in prison as judges fail to act on a law to free them

Mark Cuban has been taking on the drug industry. But which one?

Why two states remain holdouts on distracted driving laws

Catering sector to blacklist people who misbehave in clubs, bars

Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest

A baby spent 36 days at an in-network hospital. Why did her parents get a huge bill?

Did your health plan rip off Medicare?

Wave of rural nursing home closures grows amid staffing crunch

Rural seniors benefit from pandemic-driven remote fitness boom

Bleeding and in pain, a pregnant woman in Louisiana couldn’t get answers

With less access to paid leave, rural workers face hard choices about health, family

During in-flight emergencies, sometimes airlines’ medical kits fall short

'Medical cost-sharing' plan left this pastor on the hook for much of a $160,000 bill

Hospitality sector struggling under staff shortages, high prices despite higher turnover

Public health agencies try to restore trust as they fight misinformation

What Germany’s coal miners can teach America about medical debt