Like all parents, Liz de Oliveira sent her son to college in the hope that he would pursue his dreams. Only his brilliant young daughter never came home. In 2017, Lucy de Oliveira was 22 when she took her own life in her bedroom while studying for a pediatric nursing degree at Liverpool John Moores. Liz says her daughter’s death was preventable, which is why she and 25 other parents are calling on the government to introduce a statutory care requirement for students at universities across the country. The mum-of-two…
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Blue Cross’s Iselin raises red flag on rising healthcare costs – CommonWealth Magazine
SARA ISELINthe president and chief executive officer of the state’s largest health insurer, says rising health care costs could be another reason Massachusetts is at risk of losing its competitive edge. Iselin, who rejoined the Massachusetts non-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield the following January a decade working elsewhere, noticed a change. She said 15 percent of state residents had high-deductible health plans when she left; now, 43 percent do. ON The codecast with John McDonough of Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute,…
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