People will spend hours scouring Amazon AMZN, +0.77%, Walmart WMT, +1.25% and Target TGT, +1.64% for bargains, and aggressively negotiate with car dealers and real-estate agents — yet they literally drive past potential savings when choosing health-care services. Patients who needed MRIs and had access to a price-shopping tool still …
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Hi there, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance Americans scroll Amazon and Walmart for bargains — yet choose pricey healthcare services and throw away hundreds of dollars New hospital-price transparency rules took effect earlier this year, but patient advocates say those rules only do so much. ‘We need …
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SoftBank Group Corp.’s investment arm on Monday filed to raise more than $ 500 million for a blank-check company as it looks to take advantage of investor appetite for growth stocks. Softbank 9984, +1.62%, which has invested heavily in private technology companies in recent years through its “vision funds,” intends …
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While airlines are providing refunds when they cancel flights, very few carriers are doing so when a customer proactively chooses to cancel a trip because of the coronavirus outbreak, a new report from a group of Democratic lawmakers charges. U.S. Senators Edward Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Kamala Harris …
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