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Advocates on Wednesday marked Disability Rights Awareness Day in the Roundhouse rotunda and championed House Bill 38, which they say would make New Mexico the first state in the nation to require insurers to pay for wheelchairs that can be used for recreation and exercise. The bill builds on landmark 2023 legislation that required health…

Tom & Carol Shaw, a retired couple from Lewisberry, face a massive hike in health care costs. The end of federal subsidies prompted many to drop out.

1:00pm: ‘Feast for hawks’ Bank of America analysts called today’s jobs report "a feast for the hawks," or strongly supportive of the Federal Reserve’s current policy stance. Payrolls surged well above expectations, wages and hours rose, and downward revisions were minimal, with strength broad-based across industries. The unemployment rate fell to 4.3% for “good reasons,”…

Legislation to reduce the amount of liability insurance companies like Uber and Lyft must carry when their drivers accept a trip but haven’t yet picked up a rider just cleared its first Senate stop.

Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, warned more than a year ago that the European Union faced “slow agony” if it didn’t pursue significant economic reform. He is not alone in his concern. European officials rightly worry about the bloc’s growth, competitiveness, and productivity lagging its geoeconomic rivals. The diagnosis has been clear…

The Alabama Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would require all health benefit plans to cover breast cancer screenings for women over 40 years old. SB 177, sponsored by Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, D-Birmingham, requires all health benefit plans to align with all other Alabama health insurance plans and the federal Affordable Care Act coverage for…

More than half of working-age adults get their health insurance through an employer, but in many states premium contributions and deductibles take a significant bite out of household incomes. A new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund, a research nonprofit focused on health care, found that in 2024, premium contributions and deductibles for family plans totaled 10%…

Fewer Kentuckians have health insurance through kynect after subsidies that helped millions of Americans afford health insurance expired late last year but the decline is not as drastic as advocates had feared.

The Hon. Brett R. Alldredge (Ret.) is a retired California Superior Court judge. The opinions expressed herein are his alone, although he wishes to acknowledge the significant lifetime body of work of Tim Schnake. The United States produces the finest, most highly skilled medical professionals in the world. The best and brightest travel to America […]

Image Source: shutterstock.com California’s insurance market has been a roller coaster lately, and not the fun kind with souvenir photos and a safety bar. Between rising base rates, shifting risk models, and companies reevaluating what they’re willing to cover, many residents are opening their renewal notices with the same energy you’d use to open a…

The nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair has many people wondering: What makes a good Fed chair? The answer, it turns out, depends on the environment in which the chair will operate.

More than half of working-age adults get their health insurance through an employer, but in many states premium contributions and deductibles take a significant bite out of household incomes. A new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund, a research nonprofit focused on health care, found that in 2024, premium contributions and deductibles for family plans totaled 10%…

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently appointed three new members to its Second District Advisory Council. The council is a group of senior business leaders who provide the New York Fed president and leadership with insights on business and economic conditions in the Second District. Members serve three-year terms.© Shutterstock The new members […] The post Federal…

"I think we’re going to do something really spectacular," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business television. Although Powell was appointed by Trump as central banker in his first term, he fell out of favor with the president for refusing to support a more rapid cut in U.S. interest rates due to concerns about an inflationary spike caused by the White House’s…

US President Donald Trump said today that his choice to lead the Federal Reserve could boost US economic growth to a rate of 15%. In an interview with Fox Business, Trump said Warsh was the "runner-up" in his last search and that it was a big mistake to choose Jerome Powell to chair the Fed in his first term. If Warsh "does the job he’s capable of," then "we can grow 15%, and I…

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More than half of working-age adults get their health insurance through an employer, but in many states premium contributions and deductibles take a significant bite out of household incomes. A new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund, a research nonprofit focused on health care, found that in 2024, premium contributions and deductibles for family plans totaled 10%…

During back-to-back congressional hearings last month, lawmakers grilled the CEOs of five major health insurers about their vertically integrated business models. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called for breakup legislation modeled on the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which structurally separated commercial and investment banking.

Florida’s 2023 torts rewrite is delivering as promised, according to a new analysis being touted by insurers. The Perryman Group’s new report, highlighted by the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, dives into the impacts of major legislation enacted in recent years, including 2023 legislation (HB 837) that made sweeping changes to how lawsuits are filed,…