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...Independent research suggests the number of Britons with medical insurance has grown at a high single-digit annual rate in recent years....
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...The private medical insurance sector took shape in the 1940s as an adjunct to the newly created NHS....
...The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said last month that Medicare Part D drug benefit plans will cover weight loss medicines when they are approved to treat a separate medical problem, such as heart...
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...Many doctors are instead drawn to areas such as dermatology and cosmetic surgery, in which fees are uncapped because treatments are not covered by national insurance....
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...The Ulez charge has come alongside rising premiums for car insurance and higher petrol and diesel costs....
...The anniversary, though, offers the chance to ask if the UK is paying a sufficiently broad insurance premium. Possibly not....
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...As BofA puts it: Much of the firmness in March came from motor vehicle insurance, which rose 2.6% on the month and 22% y/y, and medical care services, which rose 0.6% on the month....
...They will also be able to schedule in-person appointments that they will either pay for themselves or that will be covered by insurance....
...During the pandemic, the US government required Medicaid programmes — federal and state-supported medical insurance for people on low incomes — to keep people enrolled in the system....
...Many customers are buying weight-loss drugs outside insurance schemes as obesity is not a widely covered condition in the US....
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...“The insurance hasn’t done much to ease my medical burden,” he said. “I might as well spend more money on high-quality food to stay healthy.”...
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