The rates, pricing and other data for 2026 Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance plans were publicly posted on the federal Healthcare.gov marketplace on Wednesday, just three days ahead of the start of open enrollment.
The health research nonprofit KFF said the average increase in premiums for ACA plans will be 26 percent next year, based on data for “benchmark” silver plans, which are the midtier plans in each region that most people purchase and are used to set the subsidy ...
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Top Senate Democrat blames ‘heartless’ Trump for food aid being cut off – US politics live
Chuck Schumer condemns president for stopping Snap benefits for millions as overall cost of shutdown to US economy could reach $14bn
US could lose up to $14bn during shutdown, budget office says
Obamacare insurance prices will jump up 26% next year, report predicts
On X, Adam Schiff, one of California’s Democratic senators, criticized acting US attorney Bill Essayli, after a judge found that he was in the Los Angeles-based position illegally.
Schiff wrote:
“Unlawfully serving” in his role. Acting illegally. But left in place? While this Administration continues to replace career professionals with illegitimate political allies eager to do Trump’s bidding, Californians need better relief than this.
I do the American People’s bidding at the direction of their duly elected President. That’s how our Constitution works. Try reading and abiding by it sometime.
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GOP senator scolds Greene: ‘Present an option’ and ‘don’t just criticize what other people are doing’
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on Tuesday urged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to stop sharing criticism about GOP lawmakers' approach to solving the lapse in Affordable Care Act subsidies and present her own plan.
“If this is something she‘s passionate about, put pen to paper, write a bill, present an option,” Moreno said during an appearance on CNN’s “The Source.”
“Don‘t just criticize what other people are doing,” he added.
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Harris: Democrats are ‘doing the right thing’ with shutdown stalemate
Former Vice President Harris said Democrats are "doing the right thing” by holding firm on their demands amidst the government shutdown.Senate Democrats have blocked a stopgap bill from advancing 10 times in an effort to extend Affordable Care Act premium subsidies.
Harris said Democrats “are doing the right thing by standing up for working people and not allowing the Republicans to carry a tax cut for the wealthiest people in our country on the backs of working people in A...
No Kings indeed: A partial list of Trump’s shameless power grabs
Millions of Americans opposed to President Trump’s attacks on our Constitution, democracy and the rule of law are expected to join some 2,000 peaceful No Kings Day protests around the nation tomorrow. The protests are a follow-up to the No Kings Day held on June 14 — Trump’s 79th birthday.
The protests are backed by a long list of nonprofits and will draw patriotic Republicans, Democrats, independents and third-party backers determined to...
Jeffries on Thune’s ACA vote offer: GOP ‘can’t be trusted on a wing and a prayer’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) offer of a vote on extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies was not firm enough to move Democrats to end the government shutdown.
Thune told MSNBC on Wednesday that he was willing to guarantee a vote on ObamaCare subsidy extensions, though he said reforms to the program were needed and he could not assure the outcome of the process. He had made a similar proposal...
Top Senate Republican says he can ‘guarantee’ a vote on key healthcare provision amid shutdown standoff – live
Senate majority leader there will be a vote on Obamacare subsidies, as Democrats have demanded, but ‘can’t guarantee it’s going to pass’
Mike Johnson said that Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congresswoman from New York, said the “quiet part out loud” during a televised CNN town hall on Wednesday.
“They don’t know what they want to end the shutdown. They couldn’...
MAHA is nothing more than empty rhetoric leading health care on a dangerous course
Over my career, I have worked as a primary care physician, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and an executive at CVS Health. So by all means, yes, let’s Make America Healthy Again. But if that’s truly the goal, then the Trump administration’s approach, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a farce.
Despite lofty slogans, there is no clear or coherent health policy coming out of this administration. Instead, we are seeing a patchwork of marginal reforms paired with sweepin...
Greene: ‘There’s a lot of weak Republican men’
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hit back at fellow Republicans over the backlash she’s faced for breaking with the party on high-profile issues ranging from its positions on the government shutdown to its opposition to efforts to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
“There’s a lot of weak Republican men, and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene told The Washington Post in an article published Tuesday. “So they always try to marginalize the strong...
Farah Griffin: ‘It’s a dark day when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason’
"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said Thursday that it is “a dark day when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason,” as the Georgia Republican has bucked her party on multiple issues amid the government shutdown.
“It’s a dark day when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason, but like, you know what they say about a blind squirrel, so, I completely agree with her here,” Farah Griffin said on the ABC show in response to a clip of Greene talking about disagr...