The Wall Street Journal
How to Buy Cyber Insurance
In recent months, purchases of cybersecurity insurance have faced soaring premiums and more exclusions to coverage. Robert Parisi, cyber leader at Munich Re, leads this interactive workshop on making a purchase and how to arrive at the...
The Business Professor
Understanding Worker's Compensation Laws
This video explains worker's compensation laws, which are state or federal laws that require employers to provide insurance or pay into a state program to cover employees who are injured on the job. The video highlights the benefits of...
Healthcare Triage
Lots of People Are Still Uninsured
Although the ACA has significantly reduced the percent of Americans who are uninsured, we have not yet come close to universal coverage. This has become a topic of focused debate among Democratic primary candidates. Short of achieving...
Healthcare Triage
More Medicaid News, but This Time Its Not All Terrible!
This week, Seema Verma announced that the administration would not approve several requests by states to place lifetime limits on Medicaid benefits. How about that? The CMS doesn't do much to protect benefits these days, but this is a...
Healthcare Triage
Obamacare Helped the Uninsured, but the Underinsured, Not So Much
The Affordable Care Act in the US, like most health care reform efforts, focuses on uninsurance. That's fine, as people without insurance do face significant problems accessing the healthcare system in the United States. But...
The Wall Street Journal
An Rx for Health Care: Part I
It's already part of presidential campaign slogans: "Medicare for all." But how exactly would that work?
Healthcare Triage
But, But, Medicaid Recipients Are Already Working
Recently, the Trump administration put forward plans to force all the able-bodied lazy people with Medicaid coverage to finally get jobs. The problem with this is that pretty much all the Medicaid recipients who can work already have...
The Business Professor
Insurance Policies Relevant to Real Property (Land)
Insurance Policies Relevant to Real Property (Land)
The March of Time
1952: NEW YORK CITY: TIMES SQUARE: NIGHT: HA WS Times Square cityscape,TD Crowd of people. VOX POPS: Unidentified host w/ mic & people asking questions for Eisenhower: Position on Labor Law?, FEPC & Taft Hartley?, Reduce taxes like Taft promised?
MOT 1952: NEW YORK CITY: TIMES SQUARE: NIGHT: HA WS Times Square cityscape,TD Crowd of people. VOX POPS: Unidentified host w/ mic & people asking questions for Eisenhower: Position on Labor Law?, FEPC & Taft Hartley?, Reduce taxes like...
Healthcare Triage
Trump Cuts ACA Cost-sharing Payments, Lawsuits Incoming
This week, Donald Trump's administration continued to try and undermine the Affordable Care Act by terminating cost-sharing payments to insurers. Ironically, in the long run, this will increase premiums, which will mean the federal...
The Wall Street Journal
Big Brother or Big Savings?
The new world of personal data uses algorithms and smart devices to offer cheaper, better insurance coverage, but at what price to consumer privacy? Hear from executives of two startups upending the way financial institutions deploy your...
The Business Professor
Understanding Director and Officer Liability Insurance
This video discusses director and officer liability insurance, which protects officers and directors from personal liability for their actions within a corporation.
Healthcare Triage
ACA Risk Adjustment is out of Danger. For Now.
A few weeks ago, we were critical of the Trump administration's handling of ACA risk adjustment payments. We're fair-minded types around here, so we though you should know that they've taken steps to fix it.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Ed Kane - Measuring Systemic Risk To Empower the Taxpayer
Banks take on excessive risk since they know, in case of failure, the taxpayer will step in to rescue them. That is a form of free insurance, and Ed Kane wants to end it. To do so, he says, we need to put a number on systemic risk, the...
Healthcare Triage
Paul Romer's Coronavirus Testing Plan
Testing for coronavirus has been one of the most contentious aspects of the pandemic response in the United States. This week we're talking to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer, who has developed a plan to roll out Coronavirus...
The Wall Street Journal
Waiting for Godot
The Affordable Care Act is dying a death by a thousand cuts. Will Congress find an alternative?
Financial Times
How Brexit disruption will change London's financial centres
The FT's head of Lex Jonathan Guthrie takes a high-speed tour of Mayfair, the City of London and Canary Wharf to see how leaving the EU will affect the capital's financial landmarks
Healthcare Triage
Republican Plans for The Affordable Care Act
After campaigning for years on a plan of "repeal and replace Obamacare," Republicans finally have the means within their grasp to make much of that possible. They control the presidency, the House, and the Senate. The filibuster still...
Healthcare Triage
The Malpractice System Doesn't Deter Malpractice
Research indicates that the malpractice system in the United States doesn't do a lot to deter malpractice. There are several recent studies about malpractice that look at how many doctors have malpractice claims against them, and what...
The Wall Street Journal
Anne Wojcicki on Genetic Testing, Your Data and The Next Innovation
23andMe has built its business on collecting data from millions of at-home testing kits. As the company moves to develop therapeutic drugs, CEO Anne Wojcicki outlines the next health innovations that could be powered by genetic data.
The Wall Street Journal
Microsoft's Brad Smith on a Secure Digital Future
Microsoft's Brad Smith discusses the the innovations that may push the tech industry and society ahead -- from public-private partnerships and the state of cybersecurity to opportunities in AI and the future of work.
Michigan Radio
Japanese Knotweed's Invasive Superpowers
Even beautiful plants can sometimes be detrimental to the environment. This public radio story takes place in Michigan where the sale of Japanese knotweed has been outlawed following unchecked growth of the large ornamental plant....
Healthcare Triage
What's a Nurse Practitioner Do? Healthcare Triage Podcast
This time on the Healthcare Triage Podcast, we're talking about what exactly a nurse practitioner does. And what better way to learn about the gig than to talk to a nurse practitioner? Aimee Carroll joins us this week to tell us about...