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WSJ Minute Briefing

Health Insurers Slump on Medicare Rates Proposal

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Plus: The European Union and India finalize a free-trade agreement linking almost two billion consumers. And the chair of the senate antitrust panel raises concerns over the Netflix-Warner deal. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here is your morning brief for Tuesday, January 27th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.0

Shares of some of America's biggest health insurers are skidding off hours, following

0:44.3

journal reporting that the Trump administration is proposing to hold payments for Medicare

0:48.9

insurers roughly flat next year. Analysts had been expecting a rate increase of between 4 and 6%.

0:56.4

Humana shares are currently off more than 12% while United Health and CVS health shares are down

1:03.3

around 9%. We report that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is also proposing to

1:09.6

eliminate a lucrative industry billing

1:11.7

practice that had raised concerns with watchdogs. The European Union and India have finalized

1:18.6

a free trade agreement linking almost 2 billion consumers. The EU says the deal will eliminate

1:24.6

or cut tariffs for more than 90% of its goods, including cars,

1:28.9

while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the country's textiles, jewelry, and leather

1:33.8

industries would emerge as winners. The completion of the decades-long negotiations comes,

1:39.0

as India is facing 50% tariffs from the U.S., among the highest applied to any American trading partner.

1:46.4

And the chair of the Senate's antitrust panel has warned that Netflix's proposed $72 billion

1:52.0

takeover of Warner Brothers Discovery could substantially lessen competition in the streaming market.

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