Posts Tagged ‘USA’
A policy change at Central Michigan University means international students no longer have to have medical insurance. It is standard practice to require international students to buy sufficient health insurance in order to study in the U.S. This change means many foreign students aren’t properly covered and consequently are running up large medical bills when [...]
According to the Global Mobility Study 2012, expat assignment destinations vary depending on where the company is based. The study, commissioned by the Santa Fe Group, is made up of responses from 1,119 companies across the globe and in all industry sectors. For a company based in the Americas employees were commonly sent to China, [...]
What’s a safe and healthy salad worth? Millions, according to food regulators and produce farmers in the US. Lives are at stake after all. Just this summer a deadly e. coli outbreak caused by Egyptian fenugreek seeds spread across Europe, killing dozens and sickening hundreds more. But this is just the most recent case in [...]
40% of Americans and 53% of Canadians say they sometimes wash their hands without soap, according to a survey by global hygiene company SCA and IPOBE Zogbe International. The survey was commissioned in honor of Global Handwashing Day (October 15th, for expats who aren’t in the know). It consisted of 3,000 respondents, including US and [...]
Brokers and benefits consultants are concerned about the impact of US health reform, but also see potential for growing their businesses, found a MetLife survey. The US insurer found 52% of brokers and consultants with large clients (1,000 or more employees) were optimistic about their firms’ growth potential, compared to only 31% of those with [...]
Expats living in desert climates in the US and Mexico will soon have one less thing to worry about: scorpion stings. The US Food and Drug Administration just approved a drug called Anascorp–the world’s first ever scorpion antivenom. Anascorp was developed by Mexico’s Instituto Biocion and underwent clinical trials at the University of Arizona. Though [...]
US doctors spend almost four times as much as their Canadian peers on administrative expenses related to health insurance, found a study by Cornell University and the University of Toronto. Costs per physician averaged USD 82,975 in the US, only USD 22,205 in Canada. Researchers concluded that Canada’s simpler, single-payer system was responsible for the [...]
Healthcare costs and a slowing economy are of key concern to consumers, found Deloitte in its 2011 Survey of Healthcare Consumers. Nearly half of respondents across 12 countries said their spending on healthcare had increased in the last year. In the United States the results were perhaps most disheartening: 25% of Americans admitted to not [...]
As temperatures rise to record levels across the United States, various international credit rating agencies are turning the heat up even further on Washington D.C. The inability of the US government to resolve its debt issues would wreak havoc on global financial markets, particularly on insurers, who are traditionally large holders of US Treasuries and [...]
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