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21 hours agoTrump Dismisses Question About Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs: You Make It Sound So Bad'
President Donald Trump dismissed a reporter's question about skyrocketing healthcare costs, griping, You make it sound so bad. At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire, said a reporter. What's your message to those 24 million Americans who will see their insurance premiums go up Well, don't make it sound so bad, Trump interrupted, because obviously, you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
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2 days agoSenate rejects renewal of Obamacare subsidies amid looming spike in premiums
The Senate rejected a pair of partisan measures addressing the impending expiration of Obamacare subsidies, setting up a Jan. 1 spike in health insurance premiums for more than 20 million Americans. With only a few days left before lawmakers leave for their Christmas break and few signs of life in stalled bipartisan negotiations, the failure Thursday of the dueling partisan plans all but guarantees the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits initiated during the pandemic era.
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2 months agoLooming health insurance spikes for millions are at the heart of the government shutdown
Expiration of expanded ACA tax credits would sharply raise premiums for millions and coincide with Medicaid payment cuts amid partisan conflict during a government shutdown.
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1 month agoThe View Audience Applauds as Marjorie Taylor Greene Boasts About Roasting Mike Johnson: I Yelled' at Him!
I think you've been extremely eloquent in this shutdown and talking about the issue of Obamacare subsidies. I'm a Republican too. We don't agree on everything, but we both agree we have to extend these subsidies at least for a year because you just can't pull the rug out from under people who are going to see their premiums skyrocket. You talked about your own family, how you'd be impacted, but I imagine many of the 700,000 constituents you represent.
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1 month agoThe 'quiet alarm bell' on U.S. health costs: Employers are backed into a corner, and workers are paying the price | Fortune
Employer-sponsored family premiums rose to about $26,993 in 2025, straining employers and workers and prompting likely cost shifting and tighter drug coverage in 2026.
fromIntelligencer
1 month agoAn Obamacare Deal Could End the Shutdown. It Won't Be Easy.
This week, the current federal-government shutdown will become the third-longest ever, surpassing a 2013 shutdown that lasted 16 days. There are some significant echoes of the 2013 shutdown, which stemmed from a failed Republican effort to "defund" Obamacare just as that health-reform initiative was being fully implemented. Now the shoe is on the other foot: Democrats are demanding that Obamacare subsidies, which were significantly expanded in 2021, be extended. Without congressional action, upwards of 20 million Americans will see a huge Obamacare premium hike at the end of the year.
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