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The lead-up to open enrollment is an opportunity for companies to take stock of their benefits strategies and make meaningful improvements.

“The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI-driven, not right now at least,” said Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy in a Q3 earnings call.

"In some states, such as Nebraska, the premium increase is a startling 300%," Josh Buchness, a vice president at Founder Shield, said.

A group of 25 Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, on Wednesday sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticizing the Trump administration over rising health care costs.

Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), and Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.) are proposing a two-year extension of the enhanced enhanced premium tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of this year without congressional action.

The lawsuit, filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery, comes after an ongoing bidding war between the two pharmaceutical giants over Metsera.