slipped lately, with monthly active users slipping 5%, or 20 million, in 
      the second quarter. 

What's Next: PayPal wants to be the service everyone uses for e-commerce in general. Adding Pinterest could put users in front of PayPal earlier in their shopping experiences, helping them to find other products to buy, thus boosting payments volume.

-- Liz Moyer

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As open enrollment season approaches and consumers weigh their health insurance options, how will my Covid-19 vaccination status affect my insurance costs and other healthcare expenses?

The price of remaining unvaccinated against Covid-19 is getting higher by the day.

The cost of refusing increasingly common job vaccination requirements might mean regular testing, or no paycheck altogether. In some cities with proof-of-vaccination ordinances, it might mean a missed chance at a meal inside a restaurant or drink inside a bar.

And as open enrollment season nears on health insurance plans for many employers, experts say being unvaccinated also likely means higher healthcare costs going forward.

The higher costs could include new surcharges tacked onto monthly health insurance premiums. Unvaccinated people who contract Covid-19 could also see higher out-of-pocket costs for Covid-19 treatment and hospitalizations, because many health insurance companies that used to completely cover those expenses no longer do.

Read more here.

-- Andrew Keshner

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-- Newsletter edited by Liz Moyer, Mary Romano, Camilla Imperiali, Rupert Steiner