Health insurance: Last News

William Earl The Producers Guild of America used the platform of its annual awards ceremony Sunday to launch a drive to help secure health insurance coverage for Hollywood’s working producers. The guild is asking studios, streamers and other large-scale content companies to help fund health insurance for “qualified producers” through line items in TV and film production budgets. PGA presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line unveiled the health care initiative during their address to the audience at the Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom.

Nia Vardalos is claiming that her Writers Guild of America health insurance was canceled.

EXCLUSIVE: In a story with a happy ending before the holiday weekend, NBCUniversal has stepped up to help disenfranchised employees heavily impacted by the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Film workers who have been unemployed during the strike will get some help in maintaining their health insurance, the industry plan announced Monday. The Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans will extend eligibility to certain participants who otherwise would not have enough hours to qualify for benefits. The MPIPHP also announced that members will be able to take a one-time “hardship withdrawal” from their defined-contributed retirement plans.

As with travelling anywhere abroad, there are a number of steps people have to take in order to leave the UK on safe and legal grounds.

A mother with multiple sclerosis has been refused a £130,000 health insurance payout for failing to disclose her symptoms - a year before she claims she had any.

Shannen Doherty got the support of many other working actors after she called out the SAG-AFTRA organization and its president Fran Drescher.

Actress Shannen Doherty is in the middle of her cancer treatment, which she claims has been made more difficult without proper health insurance coverage.

Ke Huy Quan is opening up about the dilemmas over health insurance in the entertainment industry.

Before “Everything Everywhere All at Once” hit the big screen last year, bringing nothing but praise and success to Ke Huy Quan and his co-stars, the actor was faced with a few setbacks.

Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once actor Ke Huy Quan is used to the long periods of inactivity in a performer’s life, but the former Goonies child star found himself in a particularly thorny stretch after filming the movie that would mark a major resurgence in his career.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Ke Huy Quan is the frontrunner to win the Oscar for best supporting actor thanks to his performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which has already nabbed him prizes from the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards. The upcoming Academy Awards will cap a three-year journey Quan has taken with “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The A24 multiverse drama shot in January 2020, but its theatrical release was held for two years until March 2022 because of the COVID pandemic. During a recent interview on “The Late Late Show,” Quan said he spent the pandemic “at home trying to stay safe like everybody.” But he was also “so nervous” because no other acting offers were coming in since his comeback role in “Everything Everywhere” was being held for release for so long.

Scott Huver Film and television producers are, at the core, accomplished problem-solvers on myriad levels. For Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line, who currently share the presidency of the Producers Guild of America, the prevailing problems for its membership are downright existential. “The biggest refrain is ‘How can we get health insurance?’” says Allain, whose producing projects have included everything from “Boyz N the Hood” and “Muppets in Space” to “Dear White People” and the Academy Awards telecast. “And ‘How do you make a living as a producer?’” adds De Line, the former Touchstone Films exec responsible for mega-hits such as “Pretty Woman” and “Armageddon,” and whose prodigious producorial output includes “The Italian Job,” “Ready Player One” and a forthcoming Billy the Kid limited series.

She had an Oscar, but she didn't have health insurance.Hilary Swank opened up about trying to go to the doctor after winning an Oscar for Boys Don't Cry in 2000.The 48-year-old actress talked about her experience during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show.

Hilary Swank is opening up about the shocking reason she didn’t have health insurance back when she won her first Oscar.

Kerry Washington is looking out for her fellow actors.

sued in court, arguing that the insurance exclusion in the county’s employee health plan is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Specifically, she argued that the policy discriminates against her (and other transgender individuals) on the basis of sex, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, and violates her right to equal protection under the law, as guaranteed by both the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Georgia Constitution.Chief Judge Marc Treadwell, of the U.S.

Kate Aurthur editorShannen Doherty has acted since she was a child, and throughout the 1980s, she worked steadily on television (as Jenny on “Little House on the Prairie”) and in movies (as Heather Duke in “Heathers”). In the early ‘90s, she achieved icon status after the slow-burn explosion of the teen soap “Beverly Hills, 90210,” which propelled its cast into the spotlight, and led the gossip press to follow their every move.

Sharon Stone is opening up about how she lost her health insurance during the pandemic and it was all because of $13.

PrEP.A once-daily pill, PrEP uses antiretroviral treatments for HIV to prevent an HIV-negative person from contracting the virus. It reduces the risk of transmission during sex by around 99%, according to the CDC.The Department of Labor order means that insured individuals accessing the drug — sold under the brand names Truvada and Descovy — will face no copays, deductibles, or additional costs associated with PrEP.That includes the lab tests and quarterly clinic visits necessary in order to “monitor patients taking the medication to ensure its safe, ongoing use,” per the guidance.Insurers have 60 days to classify PrEP as a zero-cost preventative drug.

opinion. ‘In doing so, WVDHHR caused a concrete injury to Plaintiff Fain by constructing an allegedly discriminatory barrier between him and health insurance coverage.