Biden administration achieves fourth record-breaking ACA enrollment ahead of exit

The Biden administration has achieved a fourth consecutive record year in HealthCare.gov Marketplace enrollment, one week before the final sign-up deadline and its imminent exit from office.

Nearly 24 million people signed up for Affordable Care Act Marketplace plans for 2025, according to White House domestic policy adviser Neera Tanden, exceeding the 21.3 million people who signed up last year.

The past four years of record-breaking enrollment have been credited to...

Trump’s America First becomes America expands

President-elect Trump’s imperialist tendencies ahead of his second term are begging a question that dominated his first term: Should he be taken seriously, or literally?

Trump during a Tuesday press conference declined to rule out using military force to gain control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.

He said he would use economic force to merge the U.S. with Canada, shrugging off the border between the countries as an “artificial line.”<...

Departing Senate Environment Chair Carper pledges to ‘never retire,’ keep fighting climate change

Newly former Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.) may be departing Congress, but he told The Hill he’ll “never retire” and plans to continue working on climate-related issues.

In an interview on the penultimate day of his more than two decades in the Senate, the 77-year-old said that he hopes to keep working to “make sure that our children and grandchildren are going to have a planet to grow up on.”

With the second Tr...

Price transparency could be the healthcare win Trump wants (and America needs) 

Americans nationwide have every reason to be optimistic that positive change is on the horizon for the nation’s healthcare system. Though new government figures show costs $4.9 trillion per year and 17.6 percent of GDP, straining families, businesses, workers and public-sector budgets, President-elect Trump and his healthcare nominees are poised to deliver access to quality care at far lower costs, by fully realizing his price transparency legacy. 

Using power vested...

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Murkowski says she supports extending ObamaCare premium subsidies

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said she supports extending enhanced subsidies to help people afford premiums on ObamaCare plans ahead of what’s expected to be an intense debate among congressional Republicans this year. 

The enhanced subsidies were first put into effect during the height of the coronavirus pandemic as part of President Biden’s 2021 economic recovery law and then extended as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. The subsidies increase financial help to low-...

Tossing Speaker Johnson would be a huge mistake

As 2025 begins, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) faces a perilous challenge to retain his gavel. When the House votes on Friday, Johnson can only afford to lose one Republican representative.

The problem? Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has already vowed to oppose him, likening Trump’s endorsement of Johnson to his controversial backing of former Speaker Paul Ryan. Meanwhile, others, like Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), remain undecided. To say that Johnson is teetering on the ed...