Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) announced on Tuesday that the House of Representatives will not hold a vote by the end of this year on extending tax credits for qualified Affordable Care Act (ACA) recipients who receive insurance through the program’s marketplaces. The decision not to hold a vote means that the expiration of the tax credits — which will result in tremendous…
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Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life. She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance. Then, four years ago, when Monroe was pregnant with twin girls, something started to feel off. “I kept having to come into the emergency room for fainting and other symptoms,” recalled Monroe, 43…
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The open enrollment period for Medicare ends on December 7, and chaos in the privatized Medicare Advantage market has left many who depend on MA plans confused and possibly uninsured in 2026. Health insurance companies that sponsor Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have aggressively recruited members in the past. Low or $0 premiums plus supplemental benefits that traditional Medicare is not…
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US President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have made a show of criticizing insurance company greed as they stand firm against extending Affordable Care Act tax credits and offer ill-formed alternatives. But a report published Wednesday by the office of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) explains how a scheme endorsed by Trump and some top Republicans would further enrich insurance…
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After the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Senate Democrats faltered and ended their standoff with their Republican colleagues. Democrats had initially dug in for the funding fight, they said, to protect subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These government tax credits, set to expire at the end of the year, keep health insurance affordable for the millions of Americans who are…
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There’s a popular and recurring chant that echoed throughout the recent No Kings protests several weeks ago: “This is what democracy looks like.” But on Capitol Hill over the past four weeks, during a protracted government shutdown, Republicans have been displaying the opposite. The quiet, moribund center of American government looks anything but like a democracy.
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