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Federal employees' health insurance premiums to rise by double digits for third straight year
Federal employees and retirees will pay an additional 10.9% on average toward their health insurance premiums in 2026, the third straight year of double-digit increases, according to the Office of Personnel Management. The government's share of…
Clark Howard Reveals the Real Reason Your Health Insurance Costs Keep Climbing
Open enrollment notices are arriving now, and many renewal prices will be hard to look at. On October 2, 2026, consumer money expert Clark Howard warned listeners on The Clark Howard Podcast about what's coming: “States where people are…
Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence calls to 'Free Luigi' Mangione during 'fat liberation' panel
Rutgers University professor and Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence Roxane Gay called for the release of Luigi Mangione, who pleaded guilty in August to federal stalking charges resulting in death in connection with the killing of…
MNsure Health Insurance Premiums to Rise Sharply in 2027
St. Paul MN (KROC-AM News) - State officials are reporting that Minnesotans who purchase health insurance coverage through MNsure should expect significant premium increases next year. The Minnesota Department of Commerce today released finalized…
Patient dies by suicide after 'insurance issue' delayed medicine for lung disease flare-ups
Kyle, Texas — Kenney Blewett was diagnosed with lung disease more than a decade ago but started experiencing flare-ups this year that made him feel like he couldn't breathe. Blewett described those flare-ups as 'the scariest thing in the…
AEW wrestler Pac's death exposes pro wrestling's labor problem
Few things are more difficult to get down in immutable ink than the history of professional wrestling. Born on the carnival circuit, the pseudo-sport maintained a here today-gone tomorrow feeling until relatively recently. Promoters scraped out…
AMA: PBM Market Concentration Is On the Rise
The top four PBMs controlled 75% of the national PBM market in 2024, up from 70% in 2022, according to a new analysis from the American Medical Association. The analysis is based on prescription drug plan and enrollment data from 2022 and 2024. It…
Contact lenses are changing because our lives are changing | Opinion
For many people, work, communication, entertainment, and even healthcare now happen through a screen. That shift has changed how we think about our eyes and, increasingly, how we think about vision correction. At the same time, healthcare…
Trump Administration Sending $500 ACA Refund Payments
We're one month out from the midterms, and it's clear that the Trump administration is desperate. In the Trump administration's latest attempt to bribe voters, it has begun sending $500 refund checks to people who receive insurance through the…
The secret power of the Pharmacy Guild
Our health system is under growing strain. Universal health insurance was created for a much younger Australia: when Medibank began in 1975, fewer than one in 10 Australians was 65 or older. Today, it is almost one in five. Over successive decades…
HMSA's Medicare Changes Could Increase Costs For Thousands
This week, 16,000 kūpuna received a troubling letter from the state's largest health insurance company. At the top, in bold print, it said: “IMPORTANT NOTICE: Your Medicare plan won't be offered in 2027.” It continued that…
Exposing the 'overcharge' lie: The origin of Trump's new $500 bribe
They're at it again. The billionaires who own and run the GOP — including the billionaire in the White House and the billionaires in his cabinet — are throwing out another desperate “let's buy some votes” scheme by…
Abdul El-Sayed Continues to Lie About His Plans for Private Insurance
The other day, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed did a complete 180 on his Medicare for All plan. For years, El-Sayed has said he wanted to ban private insurance and force everyone onto a single-payer plan, where the government not only pays for your…
Catherine Zeta-Jones Can't Save AMC+'s Stylish but Lackluster Thriller 'Kill Jackie': TV Review
Series like Netflix's “The Gentlemen,” “Black Doves,” and even Paramount+'s “MobLand” show that black comedies are having a moment on the small screen. Now, with “ Kill Jackie,” starring…
A Forty-Two-Year-Old Man Checks the Score of a High School Football Game
You don't have to do this. In fact, it would be a whole lot better for you if you didn't do this. You have absolutely no connection to that place or the people who live there anymore. None of your family members have children who are on the high…
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