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Health insurance isn't built to help you | Opinion
Health insurance is a system designed to make money. The system, they'll tell us, is full of moving parts and competing interests, and confusion is just the natural residue of a system that size. They're not entirely wrong. But the underlying…
A new name for a better way to buy health insurance
That puts employees, rather than employers, in control of their health insurance. Most workers don't have anything approaching that level of choice today. According to KFF, 66% of employers offering health benefits in 2025 offered only one type of…
The Meltdown in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Note: “An Arm and a Leg” uses speech-recognition software to generate transcripts, which may contain errors. Please use the transcript as a tool but check the corresponding audio before quoting the podcast. Dan: Hey there. Rachel…
The Future Of Business Intelligence: AI And Ontology
Somnath Banerjee is an IT leader and an enterprise architect at a Fortune 50 health insurance company. Business intelligence (BI) has spent decades turning enterprise data into reports, charts and dashboards. However, as generative AI moves into…
Groupama Group 2026 half-year results
Groupama has reported strong results, with net income of €560 million. Premium income (insurance premiums and other income) of €14.0 billion, up 8.7% Growth across all business lines: property and casualty insurance (+5.6%), health…
I went on food stamps while pregnant. Years later, I sold my company for $47.5 million.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ashley Tyrner-Dolce, founder of FarmboxRX. It has been edited for length and clarity. I like to say you've either got the entrepreneurial spirit, or you don't. Lucky for me, I have it. When I…
Session Focuses on the EU Treaty Package and Defense Procurement
DIGITALIZATION: In the future, every resident of Switzerland will automatically receive an electronic health record free of charge, unless he or she expressly objects. With a new law, the Federal Council aims to regulate the responsibilities and…
States and cities sue to stop Trump's immigrant 'wealth test' rule before it takes effect
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. New York is leading a 22-state lawsuit against the Trump administration for unlawfully expanding the “public charge”…
President Trump Announces Obamacare Refunds
The Biden Administration overcharged Americans through Obamacare plan exchange “user fees” that were passed on to consumers in the form of higher premiums, funding the operations of the federal Obamacare exchange far in excess of what…
The specialists charging eye-watering mark-ups on medical fees
Australians paid more than five times the benchmark price for a visit to a specialist doctor on more than a million occasions last year, the Department of Health has found. Health Minister Mark Butler has put “excessive” specialist…
I filed for bankruptcy after ending up $500,000 in debt. Here's what happened next
Brian Rooney never thought he would be one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who experienced bankruptcy last year. But that's where the father-of-five from Houston, Texas, found himself after a series of tragedies and hardships beyond his…
Major private hospital operator to be broken up after lenders back consortium bid
Australia's second-largest private hospital operator Healthscope is set to be broken up, with Sydney's Prince of Wales Private Hospital and Melbourne's Knox Private Hospital to be sold to private equity under a deal announced on Monday. Lenders to…
California attempts to crack down on health spending
California has decided to play hardball with health care costs, adding steep penalties to enforce state-directed caps on per capita spending increases. Why it matters: The move could prompt other states to follow, but also serve as a warning of the…
Our healthcare boom hides a public-system deficit
India has expanded almost every visible measure of healthcare. Medical colleges and seats have multiplied. The footprint of AIIMS has expanded. Ayushman Bharat has become one of the world's largest publicly funded health insurance programmes. Yet…
The Market Forces Quietly Adding Thousands to Patient Bills
After a failed round of in vitro fertilization this year, Anne Hug's fertility doctor said she had a single polyp in her uterus that should be removed to improve the chance of pregnancy. Hug, a professor of radiology, learned that the American…
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