UnitedHealthcare shooting highlights US insurance crisis

The shocking murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street corner last week suggests an unsettling truth about American healthcare: Our system hasn't just failed — it has lost its moral legitimacy entirely.

The chilling messages inscribed on the shell casings, "deny," "defend" and "depose", read like an indictment of our entire healthcare apparatus. 

What's even more disturbing is the public response. Across social media, many are not expressin...

5 takeaways from Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ interview

President-elect Trump's first sit-down interview since winning a second White House term aired Sunday, giving the public a view into his mindset as he prepares to return to office.

Trump spoke with "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker, and the two discussed Trump's plans for his first day in office, some of his controversial Cabinet choices, and whether he would like the Justice Department to go after his critics and rivals.

Here are five takeaways from the inte...

Biden makes push to extend Obamacare subsidies after gloomy CBO report

President Biden called on Congress to extend the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, tax credits on Friday after a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report highlighted national healthcare disparities.

“A new report from the Congressional Budget Office underscores just how critical the legislation to bring down health care costs, enacted under my Administration, have been,” Biden said in the statement. 

“Millions of Americans are benefiting from expanded pr...

Biden eyes relaxed limits for pesticide

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Trump’s billionaire Cabinet

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Trump team digs in on Hegseth

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Senate Republicans launch inquiry into unpublished NIH study

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Millions will lose health coverage if ACA subsidies expire: CBO

A new report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that if the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) extended subsidies are allowed to expire at the end of 2025, millions of people will become uninsured and premiums will rise.

Responding to the Senate Finance Committee, the CBO found that "not extending the credit will increase the number of people without health insurance and raise the average gross benchmark premiums for plans purchased through the marketplaces."

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Republicans just won a permanent Senate majority

Kamala Harris’s defeat was damaging to the left. But her loss overshadows the true scope of the damage wrought on the Democratic Party: the permanent loss of the Senate.

Democrats have lost the Senate before, but this loss is different from 2014. This time, it may well be for good. For the first time in a century, there is not one Democratic senator from a reliably red state.

We have entered an era of one-party rule — at least where the Senate is concerned.<...