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Podcast: A Few Good Things from 2025 (Really)
In the states, there were some wins for healthcare access.
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Shutdown Has Highlighted Washington's Retreat from Big Ideas on Healthcare
As health costs reach a crisis point, a yawning gulf exists between voters' desire for more aggressive action and the...
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Congressional Stalemate Creates Chaos for Obamacare Shoppers
The fate of the enhanced premium tax credits remains up in the air, with the prospect of significantly higher premiums...
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Podcast: Happy Open Enrollment Eve!
Open enrollment for 2026 Affordable Care Act plans starts in most states Nov. 1.
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A Ticking Clock: How States Are Preparing for a Last-Minute Obamacare Deal
Most insurers submitted two sets of premium rates to states this year in case Congress agreed to extend the subsidies.
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GOP Talking Point Holds ACA Is Haunted by 'Phantom' Enrollees, but the Devil's in the Data
The percentage of enrollments without any medical claims was 19% in 2021. That percentage jumped to 35% in 2024. Critics...
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Why Democrats Are Casting the Gov't. Shutdown as a Healthcare Showdown
Democrats see the high-stakes standoff as a chance to talk about affordable health care as millions of Americans.
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Shutdown Halts Some Health Services as Political Risks Test Parties' Resolve
Ramifications from a shutdown on public health systems and health programs will be felt far beyond Washington, D.C., halting almost...
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Team Trump's Answer to Ballooning Obamacare Premiums: Less Generous Coverage
The agency that oversees the ACA announced early this month that it would expand eligibility for 'catastrophic' plans sold in...
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Projected Surge in Uninsured Will Strain Local Health Systems
About 14 million fewer Americans are expected to have health insurance in a decade due to the OBBBA.
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He Built MI's Medicaid Work Requirement System. Now He's Warning Other States.
The new tax-and-spending law signed by President Donald Trump in July mandates a vast expansion of Medicaid work requirements.
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Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos
That is the age at which the ACA declares that young adults generally must get off their family's plan and...