Alana Semuels

Semuels is a senior correspondent at TIME covering the consumer side of healthcare. She previously wrote about economics and business news. She is a four-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and she has won awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers and the Los Angeles Press Club.

Recent Articles

Why So Many Childcare Centers Are Closing

The end of pandemic-era subsidies are forcing many centers to shut their doors or raise rates.

By Alana Semuels

Why So Many Women Are Quitting Work

Labor force participation among women has started falling again in 2025.

By Alana Semuels

Domestic Violence Groups Face Deep Cuts

Key federal funding has been declining and is likely to drop more in coming years.

By Alana Semuels

FDA Moves to Ban Fluoride Supplements

Ingestible fluoride is under fire by the FDA. Dentists are pushing back.

By Alana Semuels

Why Seniors Can't Afford Long-Term Care

A growing group of middle-income elderly people are too rich for government benefits but can't afford long-term care.

By Alana Semuels

Why Tomatoes Are a Lot More Expensive

As the administration announces a new tax on Mexican tomato imports, the price of beef, coffee, and eggs is also continuing to rise.

By Alana Semuels

Health Insurance Monopolies Affect Care

In some states, one health insurer dominates the market, driving up prices and creating red tape.

By Alana Semuels

Why Rural Hospitals Are Closing

It's not just Medicaid or Medicare: Private insurance payments lag in rural areas.

By Alana Semuels / Thomasville, Ala.

BlackRock

BlackRock grew its longstanding success as an investment manager through putting money in stocks and bonds in public markets. But it’s morphing to also invest in private assets like infrastructure and real estate. In October,...

By Alana Semuels

Amazon

Amazon may have started out to make shopping more convenient, but it’s now also a leader in cloud computing, and has used that expertise to become a major force in AI. The company is designing...

By Alana Semuels

Berkshire Hathaway

Investment trends have come and gone over the years, but Berkshire Hathaway has stuck with a simple idea: buy undervalued companies and invest in them for the long term. The strategy helped Warren Buffett build...

By Alana Semuels

Abortion Bans Worsen Domestic Violence

A new study shows that intimate partner violence increased in places requiring far travel to abortion clinics.

By Alana Semuels

America's Dental Health Is in Trouble

Fluoride bans and proposed Medicaid cuts are worrying dentists.

By Alana Semuels

Inside the New MAHA Report

A new federal report issued by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission portrays children’s health as in alarming decline.

By Alana Semuels

Reed Hastings and Patty Quillin

As co-founder and executive chairman of Netflix, Reed Hastings made his fortune entertaining people. He and wife Patty Quillin focus their philanthropy, though, on educating them. In the largest single donation by any U.S. philanthropist...

By Alana Semuels

Dolly Parton

Country music icon Dolly Parton has been giving almost as long as she has been singing. The musician created the Dollywood Foundation in 1988, to decrease the drop-out rate in her childhood home of Sevier...

By Alana Semuels

Warren Buffett

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, CEO and chair of Berkshire Hathaway, has indelibly shaped modern giving. He, along with Bill and Melinda French Gates, co-founded the Giving Pledge in 2010, encouraging the world’s richest people to...

By Alana Semuels

Health Insurance Is a Time Suck

The American health care system requires us to spend too much time getting coverage approved.

By Alana Semuels

Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel Has Seen the Past and Future of Travel

Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel discusses his expectations for the future of travel.

By Alana Semuels

Who Is Surgeon-General Pick Casey Means?

Means holds many health beliefs that mirror those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

By Alana Semuels
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