Enhanced federal subsidies have led consumers that otherwise would have gotten health insurance through their employer to seek policies on the individual market instead, says Michael Bertaut, a health care economist with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana.Â
Baton Rouge-based financial adviser group Hays Breard Financial Group has joined Summit Financial Networks, a region of California-based Cetera Advisor Networks, Cetera announced today.
With fewer COVID-19 restrictions and the Super Bowl-infused popularity of sports betting, Baton Rouge’s three riverboat casinos saw revenues increase by more than $5 million, or more than 33%, in February, compared to a year ago.
The wildly swinging economic factors of the past two years revealed which American businesses were ready for the kind of upending changes the future could bring, and which were not.Â