Shopping For Medicare Advantage: 6 Pitfalls To Avoid

October 7, 2023

Only 3 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries shop around during open enrollment, according to a 2022 analysis from KFF, a health policy nonprofit — and only 1 in 10 Medicare Advantage enrollees voluntarily switch plans. But a 2020 analysis of Medicare Advantage plan choices by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that more than half of beneficiaries overspent by more than $1,000 due to the plan they selected. Medicare open enrollment is Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, giving people with Medicare a chance to change plans for the upcoming year. Although potential Medicare Advantage enrollees may ...

Glaring Need For Housing Construction Underlined By Century 21 CEO

October 7, 2023

LOS ANGELES — The highest mortgage rates in more than two decades are keeping many prospective homebuyers out of the market and discouraging homeowners who locked in ultra-low rates from listing their home for sale. The dearth of available properties is propping up prices even as sales of ...

Passing The Test

September 30, 2023

PHOENIX, Ariz. — As Cummins Inc. prepares to begin full production of its X15N engine in Busti next year, the fuel agnostic engine is getting a field test by one of the engine’s first committed buyers. Phoenix, Arizona-based, Knight Transportation Inc., part of Knight-Swift ...

Why The US Job Market Has Defied Rising Interest Rates And Expectations Of High Unemployment

September 30, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Last year’s spike in inflation, to the highest level in four decades, was painful enough for American households. Yet the cure — much higher interest rates, to cool spending and hiring — was expected to bring even more pain. Grim forecasts from economists had ...

CVS Responds Quickly After Pharmacists Workload Didn’t Show Up

September 30, 2023

CVS found the right prescription on Wednesday to keep its stores open in the Kansas City area and avoid a repeat of a work stoppage last week by pharmacists: It promised to boost hiring to ease workloads that sometimes make it hard to take a bathroom break. But it won’t be easy to resolve the problems that have been growing as pharmacists at CVS and other drug stores in the U.S. took on more duties in recent years and are gearing up to deliver this year’s latest flu and COVID-19 vaccines. “It all relates to not enough dollars going in to hire the appropriate staff to be able to ...

As US East Coast Ramps Up Offshore Wind Power Projects, Much Remains Unknown

September 30, 2023

POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. — As the U.S. races to build offshore wind power projects, transforming coastlines from Maine to South Carolina, much remains unknown about how the facilities could affect the environment. And that worries some people, particularly those who depend on the sea ...