Healthcare columnist, MarketWatch
Reporter and healthcare columnist for MarketWatch
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Kristen Gerencher
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Health Insurers Say Rate Hikes Inevitable As Washington waits for tomorrow's televised summit on healthcare reform , the President of WellPoint Insurance told a committee of Congress today that soaring medical costs justified raising rates in California by as much as 39 percent. That's what happened with a WellPoint subsidiary, Anthem, which testified in Sacramento yesterday. Kristen Gerencher is a reporter and healthcare columnist for MarketWatch .
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Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
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Venezuela spirals into economic and political chaos Venezuela, a country whose potential for prosperity is unmatched, finds itself on the verge of civil war. What sustains the repressive government? With time running out, guest host León Krauze looks at what the international community can do to pull the country from the edge of collapse.