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...Insurers have targeted enrolment in Medicare Advantage plans, private versions of the US health program for seniors. This is the industry’s biggest growth engine....
...The news from Texas: Charif Souki, the godfather of US liquefied natural gas, is out at Tellurian as the developer struggles to get its Louisiana export megaproject off ground....
...The benefits of regenerative agriculture are not in doubt....
...Yet many of these provisions are funded via existing benefits like Social Security or the Earned Income Tax Credit, the latter of which overwhelmingly benefits poor families that have some income....
...The biggest private health insurers — UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Elevance Health (formerly known as Anthem) and Humana — collectively made $31.7bn in profits last year....
...Neuroscience research should be incorporated into economic policy, with brain health at the heart of it....
...“Water is an essential public service, which needs to be properly protected for the benefit of all users and not [used as] a private commodity to generate shareholder profit,” she said....
...The UK subsidiary of RATP, the French state-owned public transport operator, which runs hundreds of bus routes in London, directly benefits from UK government support — and quite rightly....
...It was unusual, not just because Phlow was only incorporated in 2019, but because it was structured as a public benefit corporation....
...Hawaii is reducing its support for the University of Hawaii and has moved to suspend pre-funding retiree health benefits to save $390m....
...So those who keep working may not benefit from the 60-day concession....
...One option that is not on the cards is breaking up Henkel’s conglomerate structure, he says, arguing that the pandemic had just proved the benefits of a broad portfolio....
...“A change in demand for animal-based proteins will help environmental health and provide direct and indirect benefits to human health, but the supply of such proteins will remain a challenge, especially...
...Alex Azar, health and human services secretary, has put forward a proposal to ban the complex system of rebates in the two major government-backed health plans — Medicare, for seniors, and Medicaid, for...
...The US Department of Health and Human Services late on Thursday proposed a rule to lower the cost of prescription drugs and out of pocket costs for patients by ending discounts to pharmacy benefit managers...
...British Airways is best placed to benefit from Flybe’s exit given the level of overlapping capacity between the airlines....
...education and health....
...This month, Walgreens announced a partnership with Humana, a health insurer, to launch clinics for senior citizens....
...Shares of health insurer Anthem and Humana both erased a 1.5 per cent decline to advance as much as 1.2 per cent and 2.3 per cent respectively before falling again to trade marginally lower....
...Not everyone was convinced by her early homilies to the benefits of skin cupping and juice fasts....
...A CVS-Aetna deal would combine the third largest health insurer in the US with the two planks of CVS’s business: a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) that negotiates the prices of medicines with pharma groups...
...The person says CVS shelved its earlier plans after health insurers tried to implement a round of consolidation in 2015 that would have seen Aetna buy smaller rival Humana....
...The stock prices of the country’s five big health insurers — UnitedHealth, Anthem, Aetna, Humana and Cigna — had dropped by between 3 per cent and 7.2 per cent by the close of trade in New York....
...He led the government’s antitrust lawsuit against American Express, which is now before the Supreme Court, and its successful blocking of the health insurer Aetna’s attempted $37bn takeover of rival Humana...
...This implies a significant easing of austerity over the next four to five years, but not a complete end to austerity in relation to welfare benefits and unprotected areas (ie other than health, overseas...
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