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What we know about the future of health insurance tax subsidies
The Senate may vote against a House-passed bill to extend Affordable Care Act tax subsidies even though more than a dozen House Republicans voted to approve it. CBS News' Taurean Small has the latest.
Hospitals accuse health insurers of 'dirty tricks'
Hospital operators are accusing health insurers of using “dirty tricks” to force members to abandon top-tier gold cover and raising prices to unaffordable levels as the federal government comes under pressure to protect the private…
Luigi Mangione gets surprise court win
A federal judge said on Monday that she will hold a hearing on the procedures used by Pennsylvania police to seize personal property at the time of Luigi Mangione's arrest as the defense seeks to exclude key evidence. U.S. District Judge Margaret…
NY federal judge reverses course in Luigi Mangione case, orders hearing on Altoona backpack search
Citing “the seriousness of the charges” Luigi Mangione is facing in his Manhattan death penalty case, a federal judge on Monday reconsidered a hearing about the legality of a property search during the suspected CEO killer's December…
Predictions for Women's Health in 2026: A Dark Year, With a Few Bright Spots
This story was originally published on The Contrarian. If 2025 was a “ very bad year ” for women's health, 2026 promises a continued rise in attacks on bodily autonomy and barriers to care. Among the immediate and longer-term…
Christine O'Brien, UnitedHealthcare CEO for La.-Miss., wants to lower insurance costs. Here's how
At a time when health insurers are under fire for raising premiums and rejecting claims while health care costs continue to rise, Christine O'Brien is trying to grow UnitedHealthcare's book of commercial business in Louisiana and Mississippi…
7 predictions for Georgia's 2026 legislative session
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is asking Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for an update on when relief dollars approved to help farmers recover from Hurricane Helene will reach Georgia. State and federal officials announced in September that $531 million…
Subsidies are not health care reform | Opinion
The reemergence of the debate over the now-expired Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits has thrust the issue to the forefront. And along with it, the deeply misleading framing that millions of Americans have lost or are losing…
For 80 years, Republicans have blocked us from fixing our health care system
With the turn of the New Year, millions of Americans who get their health care through the Affordable Care Act have seen their premiums skyrocket. Last August, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's cuts to…
Why political assassination cases aren't automatically death penalty eligible
The alleged assassination plots tied to Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson were chillingly deliberate, prosecutors say, yet both cases stumbled over the same unexpected hurdle — U.S. law doesn't offer a clear path to the top penalty when…
UnitedHealth Used 'Aggressive' Medicare Strategy, Senate Report Says
UnitedHealth Group Inc. used “aggressive strategies” to maximize diagnoses and boost payments for patients on private Medicare health plans, a new Senate report found, adding to pressure on the largest US health insurer. The…
ASX 200 LIVE: ASX to rise, Wall St steady after latest attack on Powell
Australian shares are poised to open higher, with futures rising as Wall Street reversed early losses after the Trump administration launched a legal attack against Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. The swift rebuke of the Department of…
Will any of Trump's affordability 'spaghetti' help the GOP in 2026?
However, Trump appears to be consciously trying to avoid a trap that hampered former President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections: ignoring public sentiment regarding the White House's economic baseline and…
Stock Movers: Capital One, UnitedHealth, Shake Shack
Bloomberg journalists discuss today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market. Listen for analysis on the companies making news on Wall Street. Bloomberg journalists discuss today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market. Listen for…
See Trump foreign policy patterns in Art of the Deal health care
President Trump is often derided for not having a health reform plan, or even his “concepts of a plan” he's talked about, or more narrowly, a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act and its enhanced tax credits currently under debate.
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