Maria Aspin

The deal still needs regulatory approval, but the news sent Warner Brothers stocks soaring on Friday as the wider markets also rose.

Wall Street also spent the week parsing inflation and jobs data before the Federal Reserve meets next week.

The economic outlook is getting cloudier.

Consumer prices ticked up in September, according to a delayed government report, while private employers cut tens of thousands of jobs last month.

Investors are widely expecting the Fed to lower interest rates again next week.

Maria Aspin, NPR News, New York.

The costs of health care are set to skyrocket next year for tens of millions of people on Obamacare.

They're also going up for the many more who get health insurance through their employers.

Now the companies and investors who profit from this business are also struggling financially.

Shares in UnitedHealth Group, the massive for-profit company that owns UnitedHealthcare...

have plunged 45 percent in the past year.

Maria Aspin, NPR News, New York.

The costs of healthcare are set to skyrocket next year for tens of millions of people on Obamacare.

They're also going up for the many more who get health insurance through their employers.

Now the companies and investors who profit from this business are also struggling financially.

Shares in UnitedHealth Group,

the massive for-profit company that owns UnitedHealthcare, have plunged 45 percent in the past year.

Katherine Hempstead is a policy officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

I think right now we're really going off the rails and we're having, you know, lots and lots of problems in every segment of the business.

As she points out, if even the people making money from this health care system aren't happy with it, how sick is it?