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Oscar Predictions: Production Design - Could Something as Innovative and Cool as 'Backrooms' Find Love?
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief…
Avoid these 5 common open enrollment pitfalls
Whether you're among the 53.5% of Americans who get their health insurance through work, the 20.1% enrolled in Medicare, or the 10.5% purchasing ACA coverage, mid-October or early November typically marks the start of the open enrollment period for…
Health Care Flat, Despite Strong Earnings - Health Care Roundup
Health-care companies were more or less flat, despite strong earnings, as traders rotated back into cyclical sectors in the wake of strong jobs data. Moderna swung to a third-quarter profit and raised its full-year revenue growth forecast as…
U.S. Stocks Mixed After Jobs Data, Muted AI Rebound -- Update
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 237.33 points, or 0.46%, to 51285.73. Meanwhile, the broad S&P 500 gained 23.13 points, or 0.31%, to 7376.86. The S&P 500 had its biggest weekly loss since the tariff scare in April 2025. The tech-heavy Nasdaq…
Midterm wave sets a course for 'Medicare for All' fight
Fifteen years working as an emergency room nurse has convinced Kim Bogan that the only way to fix the American healthcare system is to tear it down and start over. Her patients arriving for triage are sicker than ever. They can't afford many of the…
Trump may have lost but don't bet Democrats can fix the economy
It was the economy, again. Although Donald Trump largely ignored it, voters' acute concerns over the rising cost of living fuelled a political upheaval for the ages that is likely to deliver the biggest swing toward Democrats since Watergate…
Annie Andrews ran on fixing healthcare. The first big challenge arrives soon.
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. One of the biggest Election Day surprises unfolded in South Carolina, where pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews became the state's first…
Enough With the 'Public Option' Already
The difference between a vampire and a bad health care policy idea is that vampires jump out of their coffins and drink blood at sunset. Undead health care proposals emerge from think tank closets and suck the life out of useful ideas when the sun…
Jay Rockefeller's Lesson for Today's Billionaire Heirs
We are living in a time when billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to dabble in politics. Mostly, they seem to throw money at losing candidates. If only more of them would take an example from John D. Rockefeller IV. John…
HCA Healthcare: 3 Key Takeaways for Long-Term Investors
On its third-quarter 2026 earnings call, held on Oct. 27, 2026, HCA Healthcare (HCA -2.46%) announced that patient volume expanded while shifting coverage models pressured top-line margins. A hospital operator's ability to offset policy-driven…
Remembering Jay Rockefeller's life and legacy of public service
And now we remember Jay Rockefeller, the former West Virginia governor and longtime U.S. senator, who devoted more than half-a-century to public service. Born into one of America's wealthiest and most prominent families, Rockefeller forged his own…
Kansas family fights for insurance approval after multiple denials for 6-year-old's asthma treatments
Updated: 5:40 PM CST Nov 6, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ Updated: 5:40 PM CST Nov 6, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hadley Smock and her family have good news. They recently learned their health insurance company…
Retiring with less than $1 million? Here are 8 ways to make your savings last
You're nearing retirement, but you haven't saved $1 million. That doesn't mean you can never retire. Here are 8 financial do's and don'ts for savers with a six-figure nest egg. Focus on the amount you'll need in retirement, rather than how much…
BREAKING: Former Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Heir to Famed Dynasty and 30-Year Senate Veteran, Dies at 89
Former U.S. Sen. John D. 'Jay' Rockefeller IV, the great-grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller Sr. who spent three decades representing West Virginia in the Senate, has died. He was 89. West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced…
IYH and XBI: Two Distinct Paths to Investing in Healthcare
iShares U.S. Healthcare ETF (IYH -0.19%) provides broad-based exposure across pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, whereas the State Street SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI +2.57%) focuses narrowly on the more volatile biotechnology segment. Investors…
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