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time.com - Alana Semuels - How Health Insurance Monopolies Affect Your Care
How Health Insurance Monopolies Affect Your Care
Time

MOBILE, ALA.—Not long ago, Dr. Richard Menger, a neurosurgeon, was ready to operate on a 16-year-old with complex scoliosis. A team of doctors had spent months preparing for the surgery, consulting orthopedists and cardiologists, even…

upi.com - How 17M Americans with Medicaid, ACA plans could lose health insurance
How 17M Americans with Medicaid, ACA plans could lose health insurance
UPI

July 15 (UPI) -- The big tax and spending package President Donald Trump signed into law July 4 will cut government spending on health care by more than $1 trillion over the next decade. Because the final version of the legislation moved swiftly…

scmp.com - Mandy Zuo - 'Financial burden': why millions in China still quit national health insurance
'Financial burden': why millions in China still quit national health insurance
South China Morning Post

More Chinese people dropped out of the voluntary health insurance scheme for urban and rural residents last year, the latest available data shows – piling pressure on the system amid economic challenges and declining public trust. The…

abc.net.au - Nassim Khadem - Mental health insurance claims nearly double in five years
Mental health insurance claims nearly double in five years
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Mental health illness is now the main reason for total and permanent disability (TPD) claims, with consumer advocates warning insurers and superannuation funds may be dragging out insurance payouts for people with mental illness. New data, looking…

talkingpointsmemo.com - John Light - Not Just The Big, Beautiful Bill: Trump Policies Could Take Health Insurance From 17 Million
Not Just The Big, Beautiful Bill: Trump Policies Could Take Health Insurance From 17 Million
TPM - Talking Points Memo

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM's home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. The big tax and spending package President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, will cut government spending on…

mumsnet.com - Bad health insurers
Bad health insurers
Mumsnet

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chron.com - Simon F. Haeder - How 17M Americans enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans could lose their health insurance by 2034
How 17M Americans enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans could lose their health insurance by 2034
Chron

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The big tax and spending package President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, will cut government…

firstpost.com - FP News Desk - Millions ditching health insurance scheme in China amid economic woes, eroding confidence
Millions ditching health insurance scheme in China amid economic woes, eroding confidence
Firstpost

More people in China opted out of the voluntary health insurance scheme for urban and rural residents in 2024, adding strain to an already stressed system amid economic woes and eroding public confidence, reported the South China Morning Post…

theconversation.com - Simon F. Haeder - How 17M Americans enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans could lose their health insurance by 2034
How 17M Americans enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans could lose their health insurance by 2034
The Conversation

The big tax and spending package President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, will cut government spending on health care by more than US$1 trillion over the next decade. Because the final version of the legislation moved swiftly through…

thehindubusinessline.com - ManipalCigna Health Insurance aims to grow footprint in TN
ManipalCigna Health Insurance aims to grow footprint in TN
BusinessLine

Standalone health insurer ManipalCigna Health Insurance has outpaced the sector with a 30 per cent growth in premium in Q1 FY26, the highest among standalone health insurance (SAHI) players, the executives of the insurance firm said here on…

democracynow.org - NYT: UnitedHealth Systematically Silencing Critics After CEO Killing
NYT: UnitedHealth Systematically Silencing Critics After CEO Killing
Democracy Now!

The New York Times has revealed that UnitedHealth has launched an aggressive campaign to silence critics following the assassination of its chief executive, Brian Thompson, last year. In recent months, the health insurance company has targeted news…

mckinsey.com - Nick Milinkovich - The future of AI in the insurance industry
The future of AI in the insurance industry
McKinsey & Company

Once in a great while, a technological innovation comes along that changes the world, and businesses have to adjust—or potentially decline into irrelevance. The Industrial Revolution's steam engine and the mechanization of production allowed…

cnn.com - Tami Luhby - Judge nixes a Biden rule in order to keep medical debt on credit reports | CNN Business
Judge nixes a Biden rule in order to keep medical debt on credit reports | CNN Business
CNN

Americans' unpaid medical bills will remain on their credit reports after a federal judge last week vacated a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would have removed such debt. Judge Sean Jordan of the US District Court…

scmp.com - Sam Beltran - Why Trump's remittance tax will be 'devastating' for Filipino-Americans
Why Trump's remittance tax will be 'devastating' for Filipino-Americans
South China Morning Post

A new tax on international remittances introduced under US President Donald Trump 's sweeping economic reform bill is drawing criticism from Filipino-American communities, who say the measure will hit working-class migrants hardest and threaten the…

boston.com - Annie Jonas - How the Republic Services trash strike is creating a 'hot mess' for readers
How the Republic Services trash strike is creating a 'hot mess' for readers
Boston.com

Republic Services and the Teamsters Local 25 union are back at the bargaining table Tuesday, as trash – and frustration – continues to pile up. For two weeks, workers for the waste management company Republic Services have been on…

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