Tom Murphy, Associated Press

The drugmaker will immediately cap monthly out-of-pocket costs at $35 for people who are not covered by Medicare’s prescription drug program.

The drugmaker says it expects many people will continue receiving it for free through various providers.

Shaming people who get sick or don’t follow the rules in a public health crisis has been a thing since well before coronavirus, researchers say. But the warp speed and reach of social media in the pandemic era gives the practice an aggressive new dimension.

Oil prices that slumped steeply this year may take another hit once a historic deal between the West and Iran allows that country to start pouring more crude into a market already brimming with supply.

FBI agents and Indiana State Police raided the home of Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle on Tuesday, removing electronics from the property and searching the house with a police dog, two months after the then-executive director of Fogle's foundation was arrested on child pornography charges.

Dozens of health insurers say higher-than-expected care costs and other expenses blindsided them this year, and they're going to have to hike premiums for individual policies well-beyond 10 percent for 2016.

Insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. sees some parts of the federal health care overhaul as sound medicine and plans to keep them regardless of whether the law survives an upcoming Supreme Court ruling.