One tweet reveals sad reality of life in US

LAST week, a US woman was gravely hurt in a freak subway accident. After her leg slipped through the 12.7cm gap between the platform and train, the woman was so severely injured her thigh bone...

Health insurance comes at a cost but so does not having it

As the the newly revised Senate health care bill is floundering and Americans still have no clarity on what will happen to health care policy in the U.S., we check in with East Hannon,...

States preparing for children’s health insurance program to run out of funding

Nearly a dozen states are readying for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides insurance to low-income children, to run out of funding, according to a report from The Washington Post. Five states are...

The New Health Insurance Bill Faces The Same Old Roadblocks

Medicaid cuts make the bill a tough sell with GOP moderates. The revised Senate Republican health insurance bill released Thursday makes a major change from the previous version in an effort to placate conservative lawmakers....

These insurance stocks look like winners as Trump whacks at Obamacare

Critical information for the U.S. trading day It’s Friday the 13th, and the bears surely are ready to see our relentless bull market finally run into a bit of bad luck. The edifice of Obamacare certainly...

2018 Health insurance rates requests up 22%

State officials say that health insurers have proposed rate changes for next year that have an average increase of about 22.3 percent. The insurance commissioner’s office said Monday that 11 health insurers filed 71 health...

5 things you need to know about health care and insurance in the U.S.

Health care occupies a prime spot in today’s political theater — and an increasing share of national expenditures. But the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank that tracks the industry, found that three-quarters...

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