Bram Sable-Smith I got a hurried voicemail from my pharmacist in Wisconsin the day before Thanksgiving letting me know my insurance was refusing to cover my insulin. I had enough of the hormone that keeps me alive to last 17 days. In my 10 years living with Type 1 diabetes, I’ve never really struggled to…
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Yahoo Finance reporter Adriana Belmonte explains why health insurance deductibles and premiums are eating up a larger share of U.S. households’ incomes. Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS: A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found that in 37 states, workers’ health insurance premiums and deductibles eat up at least 10% of a worker’s median…
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The frontlines of this climate crisis are well-known: low-lying nations like the Seychelles, Grenada, Bangladesh which face such catastrophe and of course the many weather-battered regions of our planet. But what about the other frontlines – the places where the demand for action comes up against the resistance to change? We’ve travelled to Texas, the…
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