Marketplace Premiums Decrease, Third Year in a Row
ACA Marketplace insurance premiums decreased for the third year in a row. Trending in the opposite direction are employer-sponsored insurance premiums, which have been continuously increasing. Either way, the question on everyone’s mind (or my mind, at least) is how inflation will influence insurance premiums. The Deets Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzed Marketplace insurance premiums…
Read MoreMark Cuban’s New Pharmacy
BUSINESS Mark Cuban’s New Pharmacy Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy offering common, life-saving medications that are half the price compared to elsewhere. The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) achieves such cost savings by removing health plans and outside middlemen, known as Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). How it Works MCCPDC cuts out third-party PBMs by…
Read MoreThe Great Resignation
BUSINESS The Great Resignation One-third of nurses plan to leave their jobs by the end of the year, citing burnout and compensation as the main reasons (link). The DeetsStaffing firm Incredible Health analyzed hiring data of over 400,000 nurses and surveyed nurses more than 2,500 nurses to see how nurses are faring in year two…
Read MoreThe Family Glitch
5.1M Americans are caught in a “family glitch.” What the heck does that mean? The Deets Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), low- and middle-income Americans are eligible for premium subsidies in the ACA insurance Marketplace. Individuals and families are ineligible for such subsidies if they have another form of coverage, such as employer-sponsored insurance, that’s…
Read MoreHow Moderna is Advancing Global Health
GLOBAL HEALTH How Moderna is Advancing Global Health Moderna released its new global health strategy to accelerate its mRNA technology to prevent infectious diseases worldwide, not just Covid-19 (link). The DeetsModerna’s new global health initiative spans four areas: Advance mRNA vaccines to target 15 pathogens that pose the biggest threats to global health, including HIV, Zika,…
Read MoreDaddy
HEALTH TECH Daddy In a move that will expand its footprint in the fertility space, online pharmacy Ro has acquired male fertility startup Dadi for around $100M (link). This acquisition rides Ro’s 2021 acquisition of another fertility startup Modern Fertility for $225M (link). Is the message clear yet? Ro wants to be the dominant player…
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