At that time, the TV talk show host owned between $280,000 and $600,000 in UnitedHealth Group and between $50,000 and $100,000 in CVS Health, both of which provide health insurance plans under Medicare Advantage. He owned between $5 M and $25 M in a digital health company called Sharecare and received dividends between $100,000 and $1 M. Nick Clemens, Oz's…
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With Donald Trump's return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is back on the chopping block. More than 3 million adults in nine states would be at immediate risk of losing their health coverage if the GOP reduces the extra federal Medicaid funding that's enabled states to…
FireflySci Inc., a trusted provider of premium cuvettes, calibration standards, and spectrophotometer accessories, today issued a statement highlighting the significant challenges the company is facing due to increased import tariffs and skyrocketing health insurance costs. HIGHLAND PARK, N.J., Dec. 15, 2024/ PRNewswire-PRWeb/– For years, FireflySciInc. has…
Sign up by Dec. 18 for coverage starting Jan. 1, 2025. Minnesotans who need health insurance have just one week left to enroll in a full year of coverage through MNsure, Minnesota's official health insurance marketplace. Wednesday, Dec. 18 is the deadline to enroll for coverage starting January 1.
BOSTON— Nearly two decades after Massachusetts started requiring every resident to carry health insurance, advocates say they’ re building support to again transform the state’ s health care system. Voters in Gloucester, Rockeport, Essex and Manchester-by-the-Sea approved the measure by an average of 61%, according to the group. “Given the uncertainties of…
Dec. 14— The horrible murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO in New York City tore the scab off a torrent of public anger against the health insurance industry. Western New York's voice in Congress, Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, wasted no time trying to get ahead of the winds of anger.
Over Christmas, I plan to bring my typical holiday joy to the proceedings by asking everyone who joins us to share an experience they had with their health insurance provider. Of course it was the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week that brought health insurance to the top of my mind, as it did for millions of others across the country.
Peter Abbarno, R- Centralia, has renewed efforts to modify the program. Joe Schmick, R- Colfax, Abbarno prefiled legislation that would allow spouses to share the program's benefits and reopen the opt-out exemption for those with private long-term care insurance. The tax costs about $290 annually for those who make $50,000 a year.
"Wanted" posters with the names and faces of health care executives have been popping up on the streets of New York. An internal New York Police Department bulletin warned this week that the online vitriol that followed the shooting could signal an immediate "elevated threat." "Wanted" posters pasted to parking meters and construction site fences in Manhattan…
With Donald Trump's return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is back on the chopping block. More than 3 million adults in nine states would be at immediate risk of losing their health coverage if the GOP reduces the extra federal Medicaid funding that's enabled states to…
Friends and co-workers of Thompson, 50, remember him as a strong leader and loving father who used humor and compassion that traced back to his roots as an Iowa farm boy. While they recognize the anxiety over the current state of health care and UnitedHealth’ s outsized role as the nation’ s largest health insurer, they said it’ s wrong to make Thompson the focus of…
With Donald Trump's return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is back on the chopping block. More than 3 million adults in nine states would be at immediate risk of losing their health coverage if the GOP reduces the extra federal Medicaid funding that's enabled states to…
News reports about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson have quickly detoured into discussion about how much Americans hate their health insurance carriers. Here is some of the invective aimed at UnitedHealthcare:. "Guys like Brian Thompson are parasites and criminals."
Another wave of criticism rose against Minnetonka- based UnitedHealthcare, the nation's largest health insurer, and the broader insurance industry following the arrest on Monday of Luigi Mangione. The 26- year-old scion of a wealthy Maryland family was charged with murder for shooting Thompson last Wednesday outside a hotel in New York, where the executive…
Another wave of criticism rose against Minnetonka- based UnitedHealthcare, the nation's largest health insurer, and the broader insurance industry following the arrest on Monday of Luigi Mangione. The 26- year-old scion of a wealthy Maryland family was charged with murder for shooting Thompson last Wednesday outside a hotel in New York, where the executive…
A woman in Florida was arrested and charged this week for“ threatening to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism” after she ended a call to her insurance company Blue Cross Blue Shield with the words“ delay, deny, depose.” Those three words were found written on bullet casings at the scene of Brian Thompson’ s shooting.“ Delay, deny and defend” are known as the“ 3 Ds” of…
The man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson did not have coverage from the Minnetonka- based health insurer, a company spokesperson confirmed late Thursday, contrary to speculation that he may have been a disgruntled patient. The disclosure was first made by New York police and confirmed later by the company, whose spokesperson noted…
Even as UnitedHealth Group workers have been wrongly made to feel unsafe by a barrage of threats and vitriol over the past nine days, CEO Andrew Witty said in a New York Times op-ed Friday that insurers must do better in being transparent with patients when coverage for care is denied. UnitedHealth Group confirmed Thursday night that shooting suspect Luigi…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’ t defending last week’ s targeted execution of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, but believes companies like his act in a way that many people might see as life-threatening. Blasting the nation’ s health care system, Ocasio-Cortez said she had no health insurance until joining Congress in 2019. Police in Pennsylvania…
2024 DEC 13– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators publish new report on Oncology- Breast Cancer. Financial supporters for this research include Cancer Prevention& Research Institute of Texas, Division of Education& Training at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Our news journalists obtained a quote from…
