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The Roth Conversion That Cost a 62-Year-Old His $9,600 Health Insurance Subsidy
Picture a 62-year-old who retired at 60, lives on roughly $58,000 a year drawn from a taxable brokerage account, and buys his health insurance on the ACA marketplace. In late December, a headline about tax-bracket management convinces him to…
A $421M jury award against Blue Cross heads to the Louisiana Supreme Court
Nearly two years after an Orleans Parish jury rendered a $421 million judgment against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, finding the insurer shortchanged a New Orleans surgical hospital on thousands of reconstructive breast surgeries, the…
Explaining unretirement in the NFL: How benefits, contracts, roster spots work
Three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald announced Sunday he was ending more than a two-year retirement to rejoin the Los Angeles Rams. But what exactly does it mean when a player retires from the NFL? And how does one get…
Patient Privacy on Healthcare Websites
When patients share personal information with healthcare or mental healthcare providers, those providers have ethical duties to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the information they collect (ACA, 2014 ; AMA, n.d.;. APA, 2017 ; NASW…
Editorial: 56.4% Of Ghanaians Living In Poverty Is Unacceptable! - The Ghanaian Chronicle
The World Bank dropped a bombshell last week, announcing that 56.4% of Ghanaians remain in poverty, which is more than half the country's population. According to the Breton Wood institution, widening disparities across the regions point to a…
Businesses have lost the trust of a generation
Someone in my network moved his family across the country for a new job last year. New schools. New mortgage. A whole life uprooted on the strength of an offer letter. He was laid off eleven weeks later. He is not the exception. I'm part of a…
Older, savvier, and more ambitious
Remaining India's No. 1 life insurer 70 years since inception and 26 years after the insurance sector was opened to private and foreign players is a remarkable achievement in itself, says R Doraiswamy, CEO and MD, Life Insurance Corporation of…
Voter ID, abortion and bans on trans athletes on ballots in November
Voters across the country will be voting on how elections are administered, access to reproductive healthcare and one measure to require students to undergo sex verification examinations to participate in sports as early as elementary school. File…
Changes to Medicaid are coming. Are users ready?
On January 1, thousands of Minnesotans who rely on Medicaid for health insurance will be required to work or volunteer for at least 80 hours per month in order to keep their benefits. Some, however, will be exempt from the requirement, which…
Lawmakers seek solutions after closure of midcoast hospital's birthing center
When MaineHealth announced this spring that it was considering closing the birthing center at Lincoln Hospital in Damariscotta, it sparked fierce community backlash. Many politicians, including Gov. Janet Mills, urged MaineHealth to delay a…
Election 2026: Where governor candidates Garrity and Shapiro stand on Medicaid, fraud, and more
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — Key federal Medicaid changes will…
Breast density laws linked to higher ultrasound use after mammography | Penn State University
HERSHEY, Pa. — More than 40% of American women age 40 and older have dense breast tissue, according to the National Cancer Institute. This type of tissue can make cancer harder to spot on mammograms and is itself associated with a higher…
Weighty matters
PepsiCo will stop covering weight-loss drugs on company health insurance, starting October, due to rising costs, according to Bloomberg, which cited an email the cola major sent to employees. PepsiCo is the latest in a growing line of US-based…
HSBC weighs consolidating Singapore business under one entity - report - Retail Banker International
HSBC is considering a reorganisation of its Singapore business that would place its main banking activities within a single entity, reported Bloomberg citing sources. The proposed change would group the bank's wholesale, retail and private banking…
Medicaid will likely shed patients under new rules
This story was produced by the State College regional bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to investigative and public-service journalism for Pennsylvania. Sign up for Talk of the Town, a newsletter of local…
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