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The Trump administration is requesting about $111 billion in discretionary funding for the HHS, nearly $16 billion less than its budget in 2026.
States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a law that will strip safety-net health and food benefits from millions. State governments rely on such companies to design and operate computer systems that assess whether low-income people qualify for Medicaid or food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. Those state systems have a history of errors that can cut off benefits to eligible people, a KFF Health News investigation showed. States are now racing to update their…
Catastrophe bond market yields rose slightly through the month of March 2026 as seasonal widening effects resulted in a higher risk spread or discount margin for cat bonds. Which slimmed the year-on-year decline in the coupon to around 13%, the latest data from Plenum Investments shows.Cat bond risk spreads moved higher slightly in February and that trend continued in the final month of the first-quarter of 2026. Cat bond market yield coupons have now risen through 2026 so far due to relatively slow-paced spread widening, from around 8.80% at the end of December 2025, to 8.87% at the end of…
JOEL BERVELL: My guest on this episode of The Dose is Jared Walker. Right now, he’s doing something so profoundly necessary that the spiraling demand for his services meant he literally had to stop advertising. Full stop. As the founder of Dollar For, Jared Walker is in the business of helping people eliminate hospital debt. So far, his efforts have helped Americans erase over $100 million worth of medical debt. And once he got on TikTok and then started buying digital ads, well, his Dollar For nonprofit simply could not keep up with the request for assistance. Here’s why.To quickly…
Regulators cut almost a dozen metrics that factor into the quality ratings and reverted back to an older and more generous bonus system. MA plans will get more than $18 billion in additional payments over the next decade as a result.
April 3, 2026 A certificate of business insurance (or COI) is one of the most important documents your business will be asked to provide and one of the easiest ways to lose time if you are not prepared. If you are signing a lease, starting work with a new client, or bidding on a job, you will likely need to show proof that your business is insured. That proof comes in the form of a certificate of business insurance. The good news is that this process does not have to be slow or complicated. With the right support, it is easy to request and share a certificate…
RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the third-party reinsurance capital management and insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit of the Bermuda-headquartered reinsurance firm, has promoted Roger Beach to Vice President in the Business Development and Investors Relations function.Beach joined the RenaissanceRe Capital Partners team in February 2021 as a Senior Analyst, based in Bermuda. His initial role at the company covered the RenaissanceRe Capital Partners Investor Relations function as well as Operational Due Diligence, supporting operations and activities related to business development and the transactional needs of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance joint-ventures managed by RenRe. Beach then became an Assistant Vice President in 2022…
By Julie Rovner April 3, 2026 Article HTML Julie Rovner, KFF Health News LISTEN: After a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to pare down childhood vaccine recommendations, plenty of questions remain — like how annual vaccines for the flu will get approved. KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner spoke with WAMU about how the decision is rippling through the public health system. Big swings in federal vaccine policy are creating confusion for some parents and clinicians. A federal judge recently struck down Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new, shortened list of recommended…
Lawmakers are considering bills that would unwind the state’s oversight over Ballad, the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the U.S. The FTC argues that’s a bad idea.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is in the market to issue its first catastrophe bonds with two offerings totalling $150 million of notes, that are designed to provide $75 million of multi-year parametric earthquake and extreme precipitation disaster risk transfer to each of the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, Artemis can report.We understand these first two catastrophe bonds from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) were marketed to the cat bond investor base this week. This article is just an initial summary of the offering, given the Easter break over the coming days. We will bring you more details after the holiday…
Tax time can come with big surprises for some people who have Affordable Care Act coverage, including owing money back to the government for premium subsidies received during the previous year. More changes lie ahead that make it important for those getting subsidies in 2026 to track their income and take steps to protect against that kind of financial hit. First, the basics of how the subsidies work. Enrollees pay a percentage of their household income toward their health insurance premiums based on a sliding scale, ranging in 2025 from nothing for very low-income people to 8.5% at higher income…
Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM), the reinsurance, insurtech, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and transportation focused investment manager, has promoted Bernard Opoku, who currently serves as the firm’s Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer to Partner, alongside several other key promotions across the organisation.Opoku joined HSCM in 2018 as Vice President and Controller and has gone on to hold a number of progressively senior roles at the firm, including previous stints as Managing Director and Chief Accounting Officer, before later going on to become Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer in October 2023. As well as this, Opoku also leads HSCM’s finance…
Property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line continued to fall at the April 1st renewals and for the United States, broker Guy Carpenter’s index now shows that 2026 is experiencing the sharpest fall in US property cat pricing since 2014.The Guy Carpenter U.S. Property Catastrophe Rate on Line Index, which measures US property catastrophe reinsurance Rate-on-Line movements on brokered excess of loss placements, had fallen by 12% at the January 2026 renewals. Broad market softening had resulted in lower priced protection for ceding companies in the United States and those market conditions persisted through any US focused property catastrophe reinsurance renewals in April.…