Health insurance is supposed to help families, not bully them. Yet when big insurers, or their lobby in Washington, don’t get the policy outcome they want, they reach for the same lever: higher premiums.
That isn’t care. That’s pressure — and patients feel it first.
We have seen this before. In October 2017, the administration cut off cost-sharing reduction payments. Carriers answered by “silver-loading” the next year, piling the missing dollars onto sil...
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GOP seeks to wrest back momentum from Democrats in shutdown fight
Republicans are trying to win back political momentum in the government shutdown fight from Democrats, putting their rivals on the defensive and taking solace from polls showing Americans are starting to shift more blame to Democrats for the funding stalemate.
After struggling through a bad last week that highlighted their divisions on health care, Republicans have showed signs of regrouping.
They’ve forced Democrats to vote twice on a House-passed government fund...
Who might be hardest hit by expiring Obamacare tax credits
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Watch live: Jeffries speaks to press on Day 15 of shutdown
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is holding his second press conference of the day as the government shutdown stretches into Day 15.
Jeffries, who headlined a press conference with his caucus Wednesday morning focused on health care, will return to the podium with fellow Democratic leaders this afternoon.
Jeffries has said Democrats will not vote to reopen the government until Republicans engage in good-faith negotiations over restoring Medicaid fund...
Speaker Johnson suggests House would return to fund DOD — but only if the government is reopened
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested Wednesday that the House will not return to the Capitol to vote on an $852 billion Pentagon bill the Senate is set to consider Thursday — unless Senate Democrats first agree to reopen the government.
The Speaker also said he did not expect Senate Democrats to provide the votes to approve the defense measure Thursday. It will be considered amid a government shutdown that is in its third week.
“My suspicion is the Democr...
Shutdown may start costing economy $15B a day: Bessent
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that the ongoing government shutdown may start costing the economy as much as $15 billion per day.
“We call on the moderate Democrats in the Senate to be heroes. Be heroes, break away from the hive of radicalism and do something for the American people, because we are starting to cut into muscle here,” Bessent said during a press conference.
“We believe that the shutdown may start costing the U.S. economy up to $15 b...
‘Vile’: Fallout grows over Young Republicans’ group chat
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It’s Wednesday. We have officially entered the third week of the government shutdown. *hums the “Jeopardy!” theme song*
In today's issue:
• Explosive report reveals young GOP racist texts
• Supreme Court hears major voting rights case
• Journalists hand in Pentagon credentials
• Gaza ceasefire made even more fragile
• W...
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...
Watch live: Jeffries and House Democrats hold press conference on shutdown day 15
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his Democratic colleagues will hold a press conference on Wednesday as the shutdown enters its third week.
Jeffries has said Democrats will not vote to reopen the government until Republicans engage in good-faith negotiations over restoring Medicaid funding cut earlier this year and extending ObamaCare tax credits set to expire in December.
As both parties appear ready for a long shutdown, they are also looking ...