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☆ Brian Thompson murder investigation and insurer halts anesthesia policy change: Morning Rundown
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Elizabeth Robinson | Elizabeth Robinson Is A Newsletter Editor For Nbc News | Based In Los Angeles. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Trump isn’t president yet, but he’s starting to act like itPresident Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 13. The President-elect will join French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris this weekend for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral. In other words, Trump is crowding out President Joe Biden as he winds down his term and steadily recedes from public view. Insurer halts anesthesia payment policy after backlashAnthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has reversed a decision to limit reimbursements for anesthesia during surgery and medical procedures based on time limits it had set. The policy would have capped the length of time anesthesia can be covered during procedures in Connecticut, New York and Missouri beginning in February.

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“Then people wonder why a health insurance CEO was gunned down … because insurance companies pull this garbage,” one X user wrote. In an interview, he said he was not condoning the killing, but calling attention to populist anger about the private health insurance system. “My take is that there is a great deal of populist anger about the way corporations in private health insurance are able to just abuse people and ruin people’s lives and in the case of health insurance even potentially leave them to die with impunity and for profit,” Chow said. “The health care sector specifically has seen a pretty significant increase in violence, whether that be physical violence, threats, et cetera. “Two things can be true: The health insurance system is broken and must be fixed, and also gun violence and murder is wrong.”

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Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is trying limit the amount of time it’ll pay for anesthesia during surgeries and medical procedures in Connecticut, New York and Missouri. “We don’t know the purpose of the data. We don’t know the provenance. We don’t know how it’s calculated. We don’t know any of that, except we can find the spreadsheet and we can download it.

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☆ Canada financial regulator seeks feedback on crypto disclosures
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Representations of cryptocurrencies are seen in this illustration, August 10, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 20 (Reuters) - Canada's financial watchdog said on Monday it was seeking feedback on the public disclosure of cryptocurrency assets by federally regulated financial institutions, joining global regulators in ramping up scrutiny on the volatile sector. The consultation by Canada's Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) comes after the agency in July proposed new guidelines for crypto assets citing a risky environment. The OSFI's consultation will be running alongside another from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), a global supervisory body which has also sought feedback from internationally active banks on the disclosure of crypto-asset exposures. Reporting by Arasu Kannagi Basil in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ EU loophole lets banks dodge ECB's crypto supervision, needs fixing -Enria
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

He warned the EU's framework placed banks' activity as a 'crypto-asset service provider' -- such as acting as a custodian for customer wallets, exchanging tokens or managing crypto portfolios -- outside of the ECB's purview as a banking supervisor. "In fact, if crypto-asset service providers controlled by banks are not within the scope of their prudential consolidation, the BCBS standard and especially the exposure limit may become ineffective." He added crypto asset service providers should be added "as a matter of urgency" to the list of financial institutions that the ECB supervises under EU rules. MiCAR entered into force at the end of June and will take full effect by the end of next year. The Basel Committee's global standards on exposures to crypto assets are due to be transposed into EU law by Jan. 1, 2025.

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