Tag: health insurance
Subsidies for private health insurance set to expire, costs expected to...
Without an extension, premium costs could double for many Marketplace enrollees.
As Americans ration care, health insurers rake in record $71.3 billion...
Despite rising out-of-pocket costs and millions losing coverage, U.S. health insurance giants posted record profits in 2024 while their CEOs took home a combined $146 million.
CBO: Trump law will add $3.4 rrillion to deficit, boot 10...
Warnings about the law's impact on the national debt and the healthcare of millions—particularly Americans on Medicaid—were prominent during the GOP effort to pass the budget reconciliation package by Trump's Independence Day deadline.
GOP’s Medicaid cuts plan draws widespread backlash as experts warn of...
Leaked GOP plan shows intent to strip millions of Americans of healthcare access.
UnitedHealthcare interrupts doctor mid-surgery to question patient’s cancer care
A Texas doctor was forced to step out of the operating room after an insurance company questioned her patient’s approved cancer treatment.
GOP’s federal trifecta and the looming threat to U.S. healthcare
What’s next for healthcare? GOP’s agenda signals cuts and higher costs.
Sick of outrageously excessive CEO compensation?
America’s top health care execs would rather we not.
The impediment to productivity growth: Waste that makes some people rich
In principle we want as few people employed in the health insurance industry as possible, we want people to be able to get health care, not to have insurers block their path.
Biden’s health care plans could mean new changes to your health...
Biden’s health care plans could benefit millions of Americans, especially as the nation faces a potential second wave of the coronavirus.
5.4 million have lost their health insurance amid pandemic
“We have got to work together to make sure that anyone in America who is sick—regardless of their income or immigration status—can seek the medical treatment they need during this national emergency.”
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Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown
Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.
Trump is running for a third term. SCOTUS will let him. Democrats have to...
How far the Democrats ultimately go in providing justice and accountability depends entirely on how much the American people push them.
Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina sparks outrage as millions of Americans face food...
Critics accuse the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding SNAP benefits during the shutdown while approving a $40 billion bailout tied to Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei.
10,000 Palestinians buried beneath Gaza’s rubble as families dig by hand
With more than 10,000 bodies still trapped under the ruins of Gaza, families search with shovels and bare hands while aid agencies warn that recovery could take years amid explosives, disease, and ongoing destruction.
Only the ugliest American alone pulverizes domestic and overseas stability, the rarest of doomed...
As long as politics remains tawdry, brain-numbing entertainment, infected by hateful racist bugs, today’s already darkened age will grow darker before en-light-enment may return.