Health care has increased its role in popular culture over the years. In movies in particular, we’ve seen health care costs and hassles play featured in plotlines in As Good as it Gets [theme: health insurance coverage], M*A*S*H [war and its medical impacts are hell], and Philadelphia [HIV/AIDS in the era of The Band Played… Read More »
Thomas Vinterberg is, at this point, a veteran in the filmmaking business, giving us The Hunt, The Celebration, and Far From the Maddening Crowd. But when he took to the stage on Sunday night to accept the Oscar for Best International Film for Another Round, the gold trophy came with a bittersweet story about how… Read More »
Dive Brief: Startup payer Oscar announced a major expansion of both its national presence and virtual healthcare services Thursday, the latter spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic. New York City-based Oscar said it is expanding into four new states in 2021: Oklahoma, Iowa, North Carolina and Arkansas. It is also expanding into new counties in… Read More »