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WSJ What’s News

Health Insurance Costs Set for Biggest Jump in Years

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for Sept. 7. With the cost of health insurance in the U.S on pace for its biggest jump in more than a decade, we look at what’s driving the surge and its impact on families and businesses. Plus, WSJ reporter Konrad Putzier explains how the troubled commercial real estate market could be bad news for American banks. And Apple faces a fresh challenge in China as Huawei releases a new high-speed phone. Luke Vargas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.2

US health insurance costs are set for their biggest surge in years.

0:39.2

Plus, we'll check in on oil markets after the Biden administration moves to limit drilling in Alaska

0:45.6

and how trouble in commercial real estate could threaten America's banks.

0:50.6

In the decade after the financial crisis,

0:52.8

all these small and regional banks across the country became big-time lenders,

0:57.0

really increasing their exposure to commercial real estate,

0:59.8

and now that's become a huge risk for them because the market isn't fee-full.

1:03.2

It's Thursday, September 7th.

1:05.0

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

1:07.0

and here is the AM edition of What's News,

1:10.2

the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

1:14.2

The cost of health insurance in the United States is on pace for its biggest jump in more than a decade,

1:24.6

with a 6.5% surge in costs in store for employer-based coverage in 2024.

1:31.8

That is according to data from consultants Mercer and Willis Towers Watson,

1:36.2

which was supplied exclusively to the journal.

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