Industry Segments: Health Page 13 / 17
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- November 10 2016
Singapore insurance group to study healthcare costs
The city's Life Insurance Association will study recommendations of Health Insurance Task Force.
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- November 9 2016
Ping An opens 10,000 health clinics in China
The clinics are part of its Wanjia Clinics platform, serving the 110 million users of its Ping An Doctor portal.
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- October 31 2016
Private health insurance continues apace in China
China’s private healthcare insurance market is developing at a staggering pace.
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- October 28 2016
Pokemon Go’s surprising health dividend
Microsoft estimates the game has added a total of 144 billion steps to US physical activity.
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- October 28 2016
China’s greying population
A demographic time bomb is forcing the country to address the rising cost of elderly care.
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- October 25 2016
Asian firms brace for higher healthcare bills
Costs are set to increase by 11.5% this year, more than five times the average regional inflation of 2.1%.
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- October 18 2016
Health-insured Singaporeans to face higher premiums
The moratorium on raising Integrated Shield Plan premiums will be lifted at the end of this month.
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- October 14 2016
Global health insurance market to grow 11%
But Donald Trump's plan to repeal Obamacare could decrease coverage by 15.6m people.
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- October 12 2016
China fast-tracks health insurance reforms
Chinese authorities called on all provinces to start and release their respective plans by the end of the year.
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- October 12 2016
Koreans spend W100tn on social insurance
Costs last year increased 6.3% from the preceding year, according to the Korea Employers Federation.
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- October 4 2016
China vows to improve health insurance system
The government aims to head off a public health crisis caused by its ageing population.
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- September 28 2016
Big growth for Indonesia’s healthcare industry
The sector is expected to grow to more than US$50bn by 2020 as the government upgrades the nation’s healthcare.
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- September 15 2016
China and Netherlands agree social insurance deal
Chinese and Dutch nationals working in each other's countries will soon be exempted from mandatory contributions.
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- September 9 2016
Solving the superbug problem
The decreasing efficacy of antimicrobial drugs in humans has serious consequences for life and health insurers.
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- September 7 2016
Investors bet on private health insurance
The countries expected to draw substantial investment in private healthcare are China, India, Brazil and Mexico.
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- August 29 2016
Taiwanese insurer ordered to pay premiums
Taiwan’s Nan Shan Life risks paying penalties if it does not contribute to its agents’ health insurance coverage.
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- August 23 2016
Singapore to improve ElderShield
The enhancement will complete the strengthening of Singapore’s social safety net during the past decade.
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- August 18 2016
Vietnam sets social and health insurance targets
The country is aiming for at least 50% of the population to have social insurance coverage by 2020.
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- August 11 2016
Singapore IP insurers suffer high medical costs
Some Integrated Shield Plan insurers in the city are struggling as profits succumb to higher costs.
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- August 5 2016
Healthcare benefits continue to rise in Asia
Medical insurers say costs are increasing due to overuse of care and underuse of preventative services.
