Under the Affordable Care Act, health insurers are required to spend 80% to 85% of the revenue they get from premiums on medical care. If they don’t, they have to issue rebates or credits to make up the difference.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Monday reported 5,218 new COVID-19 cases, the sixth day in a row that new cases have topped 5,000 in the daily update.
More than 10 million U.S. households visited Santa in a mall or store last year, according to GlobalData Retail. Nearly 73% of them also spent money at nearby restaurants or stores, he says.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration on Sunday ordered numerous restrictions in a move backed by hospitals, universities, colleges, community colleges and K-12 school boards.
An order sent Friday by Chief Judge Jane E. Magnus-Stinson suspends all in-person jury trials in all divisions of the U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana until at least Jan. 25.
Marion County reported 799 new COVID-19 cases, raising the cumulative total to 35,416. Hamilton County saw 307 more positive cases, bringing its total to 10,189.
“They don’t think it’s real,” said a public health official in Iowa. “They don’t think it’s going to be that bad or they just don’t want to wear a mask because we’ve made it a whole political thing.”
Cities and states are trying to avoid full-blown lockdowns by enacting almost every other kind of restriction: nighttime curfews, bar closures, stricter mask mandates, and 10-person gathering limits, for example.
Marion County reported 1,079 new COVID-19 cases in the latest daily report, raising the cumulative total to 34,633.
Across Indiana, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations has been shattering records day after day, putting a strain on many hospitals and adding to the anxiety about how much longer the pandemic will continue.
The state has reported 308 new COVID-19 deaths over the past seven days (an average of 44 per day) compared with 256 (36.5 per day) the previous week.
The U.S. Open swimming meet originally was scheduled for one site. Now it’s taking place across nine, including Indianapolis, where events are scheduled through Saturday at the Indiana University Natatorium.
Thursday’s agreement with major chain drug stores, grocery market pharmacies and other chains and networks covers about 3 in 5 pharmacies in all 50 states and U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico.
President-elect Joe Biden’s top allies on Capitol Hill adopted a combative posture on COVID-19 relief on Thursday, pressing their case for a $2 trillion bill that’s a nonstarter for Republicans.
Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in Indiana continue to escalate, rising to another all-time high. COVID-19 patients occupy 31% of the state’s intensive care beds.
Schools will be required to switch to all virtual instruction and bars will need to reduce capacity under the new orders, which are in response to a growing wave of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations.
The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week ,to 709,000, a still-high level but the lowest figure since March and a further sign that the job market might be slowly healing.
Office space, the largest single slice of the commercial real estate sector, already is seeing rents fall as vacancies rise. Property values eventually could plummet 20% to 35%, according to a recent Barclays report. Hotels and retail properties have been hit even harder.
U.S. online holiday sales are expected to shatter previous records. Adobe Analytics, which measures sales at 80 of the top 100 U.S. online retailers, predicts a total of $189 billion in online holiday sales, a 33% increase compared to last year.
The number of new daily coronavirus cases in the United States is at an all-time high. Nearly every metric is trending in the wrong direction, prompting states to add new restrictions and hospitals to prepare for a potentially dark future.
