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Insurer stocks plunge after Trump administration moves to freeze Medicare payment rates. $UNH stock crashed 20% today!!!

BLOOD IN THE WATER. 🩸 Trump administration just proposed a 0.09% "increase" for 2027 Medicare Advantage rates. In the world of medical inflation, a 0.09% bump isn't a "flat rate", it’s a brutal funding cut. The reaction was instant:$UNH: -9% 📉$HUM: -13% 📉$CVS: -9% 📉 pic.twitter.com/wU1qBIAtfI — Lia Holmgren (@Liathetrader) January 27, 2026 Breaking: Trump Administration proposes keeping steady the rates …

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Health insurer revenues triple under Obamacare.

I wonder what do they all have in common? pic.twitter.com/WX8Ydd7LXQ — Kentucky Statesman (@ky_statesman) December 9, 2025 Healthcare in the United States has become increasing unaffordable. One place this is most visible is in the growing revenues of health insurance companies. The total revenues reported in the financial filings of the seven largest health insurance …

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Iran, Russia, and the NZ insurer that kept their sanctioned oil flowing

The three tankers had different owners, different operators and different clients. But they shared one thing: a small insurer headquartered in New Zealand, backstopped by some of the world’s biggest reinsurance firms. The company, Maritime Mutual, is run by 75-year-old Briton Paul Rankin and family members. For more than two decades, it has insured everything …

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Japan’s top insurer bond losses triple echoes U.S. bank collapse warning. SVB crisis replay? Unrealized pain turns real without central bank shield

‘Japan’s Top Life Insurer Says Unrealized Bond Losses Tripled.’ This Bloomberg headline sounds familiar, right? Back in March 2023, several US regional banks, including Silicon Valley Bank and later First Republic Bank, collapsed when ‘unrealized losses’ became realized losses as people got their money out. Did the system collapse? NO! Why? Because the Federal Reserve …

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California Insurer of Last Resort Went Bust. It Won’t Be Alone.

California homeowners were just reminded that the financial backstop of last resort for houses destroyed by wildfires is … other California homeowners. It’s a sign of what’s in store for the rest of the country when too many homes lack adequate protection from the growing risk of natural disasters. Last week, surprising no one, California’s …

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Germany’s economy is in freefall, yet its biggest insurer still gambles on MicroStrategy’s convertible note.

OUCH! German private sector slides deeper into contraction on services, dealing another blow to an economy grappling with a govt collapse alongside flat-lining growth. The composite PMI dipped to a 9mth low of 47.3 in Nov from 48.6 in Oct – holding below the 50 threshold separating expansion from contraction. Services PMI unexpectedly dropped below 50 …

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Major insurer gives brutal ultimatum to CA: Allow increase to prices by up to 52% or we leave.

A prominent insurance provider has aired an ultimatum to the entire state of California. The firm, State Farm General, asked the state’s Department of Insurance Thursday to let them raise residential insurance rates for millions of citizens, or see them move out. The move indicates financial trouble for the insurance giant, which currently covers homes …

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