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Some states have sued.
All of this is taking a big toll on transgender young people and their families.
And as Marketplace's Samantha Fields reports, it's also taking a toll on health care providers.
The new tax-favored investment vehicle for babies born in this presidential term, Trump Accounts, the Marketplace Morning Podcast will have a closer look if you missed it on the air.
It's the Morning Report from APM American Public Media.
Health insurance companies wake up today with a headache.
I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.
Stock in the health insurance company Humana is down 15% in pre-market trading right now.
Elevance, which does Blue Cross Blue Shield, down more than 7%.
The staffer reports the government plans to give them just a small raise for privatized Medicare Advantage plans.
Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer explains.
Given this, UnitedHealth stock is down 12 percent pre-market now, this despite reporting quarterly profits today that beat expectations.
We don't expect U.S.
central bankers to lower interest rates this week.
The Fed starts meeting today, and its briefing on inflation, jobs, and growth comes just after lunch Eastern time tomorrow.
Dow futures are down 0.2%, but S&P futures are up 0.4%.
NASDAQ futures are up 0.6% now.
5.3 million people have not made a student loan payment in a year, part of the legacy of pandemic-era policies to ease loan repayment.
The plan had been for the government to resume grabbing paychecks and tax refunds for those in default, but we continue to cover the Trump administration's recent about-face on this.
The wage and tax garnishments have been suspended.