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Opinion: The other affordability crisis: healthcare
Housing costs are too high, no doubt about it, and elected leaders are right to focus on making them more affordable. As bad as housing costs are, healthcare costs are worse. In fact, the average monthly health insurance premium for a family is now…
Devoted Health is raising a new round of funding at a $25 billion valuation
Devoted Health is the latest startup to show that combining health and AI commands a premium valuation. Just months after announcing a new round of funding, the Medicare Advantage startup is in talks to raise another round that could value the…
What We Can Learn From Taiwan And Egypt About Ending Endemic Disease
Taiwan and Egypt show that hepatitis C elimination is achievable when governments connect universal screening, confirmatory testing, affordable antivirals, and local treatment into one continuous pathway. Hepatitis C kills about 290,000 people…
Prudential Health India commences operations, backed by Prudential plc and HCL Group
Prudential Health India, a standalone health insurance company backed by a joint venture between Prudential plc and HCL Group, on Thursday announced the commencement of its business operations in India, entering a market valued at approximately $16…
Encore Boston Harbor workers vote to authorize a strike
Encore Boston Harbor workers could go on strike in the coming weeks. Workers at the Everett casino resort voted Thursday to authorize a strike. Roughly 1,350 members of UNITE HERE Local 26 and Teamsters Local 25 work at the property. Their contract…
The US bond market crisis and the coming eruption of class struggle
The U.S. Treasury Department intervened this week to contain a selloff in long-term government debt, a sign of a mounting financial crisis that is driving an immense escalation of the class struggle. After the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond…
AFR Chanticleer podcast: Macquarie's new CEO, when good news is bad news and China's AI shock
This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald take you inside the mysterious world of bond markets and explain what has got the world's most important investors rather grumpy. They ask why many of the country's biggest…
Preference for comprehensive health cover growing: HDFC ERGO General Insurance MD & CEO Parthanil Ghosh
Recent insurance reforms are giving a fresh push to customer demand while strengthening transparency and affordability, says HDFC ERGO General Insurance MD & CEO Parthanil Ghosh in, who expects the changes to support wider insurance penetration.
Trump's beef bet forgets the rest of the burger
Make that quarter-pounder a double. President Donald Trump has opened the cattle gates to 300,000 tons of foreign beef outside of the current import quotas for the next 90 days. A cynic might see this as a naked attempt to beef up Republican…
Gavin Newsom's mind-boggling record of giveaways to unions
A friend recently told me he was impressed that Gov. Gavin Newsom was standing up to California's public employee unions by requiring state workers to return to the office at least four days a week. But if he thought that meant Newsom had generally…
Republicans dealt quadruple polling blow in race against Abdul El-Sayed
Republicans were dealt a quadruple polling blow in the Michigan Senate race this week as four new polls gave progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed a lead over former Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican. El-Sayed's victory over centrist…
Futures Rise On Opex Day As Yields Stabilize; Bitcoin Almost Tags $80,000
US futures rebound from Thursday's slump, and trade at session highs on. As of 8:15am ET, S&P 500 futures were 0.4% higher with Nasdaq 100 contracts up 0.6%, while Bitcoin headed for its best week in more than three years, rising just shy of…
IRDAI bars life insurers Pramerica, Edelweiss from opening new branches for 6 months
Insurance regulator IRDAI has directed Edelweiss Life Insurance and Pramerica Life Insurance, in separate orders on August 20, not to open new place of business for six months for non-compliance with Expenses of Management (EoM) limits in 2024-25.
It's scary to run out of options': Floridians talk Obamacare changes after expired tax credits
This story is a continuation of 'Punch in the gut': Florida family hit with $3,430 monthly health insurance bill. Part one of the story highlights a nationwide trend of skyrocketing premiums for and declining enrollment in Affordable Care Act…
Laya Healthcare customers face second round of price hikes in 12 months
HEALTH INSURANCE PROVIDER Laya Healthcare has announced that premiums on a number of its plans will increase by an average of 2.7% from October. The latest price hike, affecting around 65 schemes, could cost an individual an extra…
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