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Bertha Coombs
Bertha Coombs is a reporter for CNBC, covering financial markets, business news stories and health care throughout the business day. She is based at the Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square.
Her health care coverage at CNBC has ranged from covering the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the failed launch of the Obamacare health insurance exchanges, to how cancer researchers are using IBM's Watson to improve cancer care, and how doctors are using mobile technology to treat patients in their own homes. She also covered the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the impact of the financial crisis of 2008, and reported on the oil markets from the floor of the New York Mercantile exchange.
Before joining CNBC, Coombs was a reporter and anchor for the pioneering online business network, Yahoo Finance Vision, and served as a freelance reporter for the former CNNfn financial network. Prior, she served as a reporter for ABC News One, and a substitute anchor for "World News Now" and "World News This Morning."
She began her career in general news, with previous reporting and anchoring positions at WABC-TV in New York, WPLG-TV in Miami and WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut.
Coombs is a graduate of Yale University and was awarded the Leo Beranek Reporter Training Fellowship at WCVB-TV in Boston. Born in Havana, Cuba, she speaks fluent Spanish.
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CNBC's Bertha Coombs asks Tom Reilly, SCS Commodities, about the action in commodities this year, and his outlook for oil production and price in the new year.
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CNBC's Bertha Coombs has an update on oil prices as the dynamics shift between WTI prices and Brent Crude.
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CNBC's Bertha Coombs has the latest details on the move in oil prices.
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The national conversation on drug prices is getting louder, and patients increasingly want a voice in that discussion.
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After UnitedHealth warned it may exit Obamacare exchanges in 2017, its rivals Friday reaffirmed earnings forecasts.
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UnitedHealth is lower on news it may exit Obamacare. CNBC's Bertha Coombs provides details of insurers speaking out on losses from Obamacare.
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Reimbursement shortfalls are hurting slews of start-up companies that launched along with Obamacare. Here's how some are tackling the future.
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Inside Nixon Peabody's Washington D.C. office, with NP's managing partner Jeff Lesk.
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CNBC's Bertha Coombs reports on the latest on Obamacare as enrollment kicks off.
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The third year for open enrollment in Obamacare is about to begin. CNBC's Bertha Coombs reports from health insurance startup Oscar about preparations.
