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...Mortifications are part of Opus Dei’s daily spiritual plan, and they aren’t limited to the flesh. Asceticism is a way to imitate Christ’s life, to take up the cross with him....
...As a teenager in the 1990s, he was hailed as a wunderkind of German business before enduring a downfall that included the collapse of several ventures, personal bankruptcy and a criminal conviction....
...The first large flag I see when I arrive in Maine flutters off the back of a pick-up truck. It’s red, white and blue and says “Fuck Biden”....
...And even on some occasions prior to that there was much less in the way of people stood outside shouting. It looked more professional, as Jim says. It was more of a business presence....
...Serkan Kutan, the former chief technology officer for digital health platform ZocDoc, is the CTO of Haven, and Dana Safran, from insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield, is head of measurement....
...Blue Shield state health plans, which negotiate via Prime Therapeutics....
...A running joke among executives in charge of employee benefits is they have no choice but to deal with “Cuba” — Cigna, UnitedHealth, Blue Cross, Anthem or Aetna — the inference being that the large insurers...
...Of the big five, Anthem is most exposed to the Obamacare exchanges; the insurer holds licences for the popular Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in several states....
...Instead, Cigna blamed Anthem for pursuing a “unilateral strategy” to bolster its Blue Cross Blue Shield network, which it said ultimately persuaded the judge that the deal would limit competition....
...The chain is the flagship of L Brands, the business he founded as The Limited in 1963....
...Already, medical data stores have been a prime target for cybercriminals: in 2015, US health insurers Anthem and Premera Blue Cross were hacked, compromising the medical records of more than 90 million patients...
...Premera Blue Cross, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, and Excellus Health Plan announced breaches affecting at least 22m individuals in total since March, including hacks that stretched back more than a year...
...J&J’s plan, he says, “is to transform the business we have today”....
...A third brief, from Ikea, Mars, Adobe and Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance, argued that their businesses would be harmed if emissions from power generation in the US were not cut....
...There is stiff competition in many states from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, a federation of 36 separate insurers that covers about 30 per cent of Americans....
...The “Royal Esplanade” running down the middle is more of a cross between a Westfield shopping centre and a Marriott hotel. At one end there is a vast silver sculpture of a French horn....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...Adichie’s long, satisfying novel of cross-continental relationships, exile and the pull of home....
...She had previously been president and chief executive of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (WellPoint divisions), where she started out with the company in 1999 as its general counsel....
...Some experts think this trend will flatten out, but as yet it shows no signs of doing so....
...by Anthem Blue Cross”....
...Ms Braly, who runs the biggest US health insurance company by membership, is under pressure because of soaring rate increases at Anthem Blue Cross, a California subsidiary, that were set to take effect next...
...The Obama administration has been incensed by the likes of Anthem Blue Cross, which raised premiums in California by 39 per cent, and has proposed a review board to block rate rises deemed unjustified....
...Three elderly men yoked together by happenstance, their home town and a rugby anthem, bound on and start singing their first hit....
...Express Scripts will pay $3.28bn in cash, with the rest of the price paid in stock, to WellPoint, a top US health insurer that provides benefits under the Blue Cross Blue Shield brand....
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