Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your...

To an outsider, the fancy booths at a June health insurance industry gathering in San Diego, Calif., aren't very compelling: a handful of companies pitching "lifestyle" data and salespeople touting jargony phrases like "social...

SCOTUS and Trump promote lies and deception in place of reproductive health care

The recent Supreme Court decision in NIFLA v. Becerra struck down a California law that required so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) to disclose whether they are licensed medical facilities, and what health services they...

Trump administration slashes ‘Obamacare’ sign-up assistance

For the second time in days, the Trump administration is taking action to undercut the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Tuesday announced steep funding cuts for sign-up assistance...

How the slow sabotage of Obamacare may hurt America’s breastfeeding rate

Women’s health and breastfeeding advocates are worried we might be poised for a reversal. Breastfeeding in America isn’t easy but it got a whole lot easier after the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010. Lesley Muldoon,...

The GOP’s stealth campaign to sabotage your health care

Chances are good that your health insurance is bad — and getting worse. If you have ObamaCare, the deductibles and co-pays keep going up, the networks keep getting narrower, and every year you have to...

Best credit cards for rental car insurance

Did you know that many major credit cards offer car rental insurance? A new survey from WalletHub reveals that just 47 percent of drivers know about credit card rental insurance. And a third of credit...

US insurers to raise premiums as Trump axes Obamacare payments

Health insurers warned that a move by the Trump administration on Saturday to temporarily suspend a program that was set to pay out $10.4 billion to insurers for covering high-risk individuals last year could...

Your credit history plays a role in setting your life insurance premiums

Your credit history reveals more than whether you’re likely to repay a loan. Insurers see a connection between how you handle credit and your risk of dying early, and some use credit information to...

Robert Downey Jr., Jay Z, Durant Back Life Insurance Startup

The company isn’t a well-known name in Silicon Valley, but its investors certainly are. San Francisco-based Ethos Technologies Inc. was founded last year, the product of two Stanford MBAs. The company’s core product is a...

Understanding the value, and importance, of life insurance

Life insurance is one of those topics people really don’t like to think about. But it’s national Life Insurance Awareness Month, so now seems a good time to ponder its value. Not addressing this cornerstone...

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