Whether a young person has public or private insurance – or is uninsured or underinsured – significantly influences their risk of death across many cancer types.
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Paying attention to the sticker price doesn’t always result in the best insurance coverage.
Central bankers agree that climate change poses a threat to the financial system. An insurance crisis is exactly the kind of problem that could spread.
Local governments are increasingly buying – and forgiving – their residents’ medical debt.
An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
Being financially resilient means you aren’t left financially devastated when an expensive emergency creeps up on you.
With average insurance premiums up 28% in the past year, there’s growing pressure on the insurance industry to rethink its opposition to a government-owned and run disaster reinsurance pool.
The housing crisis coupled with climate change could see more people living in the kinds of shanty towns and tent cities seen around the time of the Great Depression.
Trauma insurance provides a benefit for life-threatening medical conditions that seriously compromise the insured person’s current and future quality of life.
Pandemic-related policies made it easier for states to afford to cover more people and made that coverage more stable for millions of Americans who rely on the program for health care.
The less we are insured, the higher the premiums, the more the government has to help, and the less are insured. A model used overseas points to a way out.
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