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End the Private Health Insurance Tax: Pass Medicare for All
Every other Monday, I arrive at work bleary-eyed, still finishing my coffee, and settle into the workweek by reviewing my latest pay stub. I'm looking for miscounted hours, abnormal deductions — the sorts of mistakes that never happen but…
Democrats want to bring back Obamacare's costly subsidies
The enhanced premium tax credits were introduced in 2021 as a temporary pandemic-era measure and extended through the end of 2025. They increased federal assistance for Obamacare enrollees and eliminated the income cap on eligibility. Even…
These states are offering extra ACA premium subsidies in 2027
About a dozen states are offering state-funded premium assistance to some ACA marketplace enrollees in 2027. The programs are intended to soften the impact of enhanced federal premium tax credits that expired at the end of 2025. Eligibility and…
U.S. healthcare tech firm opens AI engineering centre, to hire 1,000
Updated - November 09, 2026 09:24 pm IST - HYDERABAD Subscribe to The Hindu @ Just ₹1* Subscribe to The Hindu @ Just $4.99 *Offer only for new subscribers Simplify Alpha, a Chicago-headquartered healthcare technology company and part of the…
Would You Take the Money? Microsoft Is Offering Employees Its Biggest Buyout Offer to Date.
Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 employees to cut costs. The offer will provide benefits similar to standard severance packages. Microsoft's headcount has stayed flat since 2022, reaching around 223,000 employees this year. Two weeks ago…
Federal retirement benefits work only when they work together | Opinion
Each part of the federal benefits package has its own purpose, but when you look at them without the bigger picture, it's easy to feel unsure about what to do. That is the problem I see repeatedly in federal retirement planning. Federal employees…
Simplify Alpha Launches AI Engineering Centre In Hyderabad To Revolutionise US Healthcare
Simplify Alpha, a leading healthcare technology firm, has launched its new AI Engineering Centre in Hyderabad, poised to create 1,000 jobs and innovate solutions for the complex US healthcare industry using advanced AI and domain expertise.
ESPN Snares Rights to Expanded College Football Playoff
ESPN secured rights to an expanded college-football playoff structure, lending ballast to the media-industry notion that you can't have enough of this level of game play at this moment in the sector. Under terms of a new deal, the Disney…
TED JENKIN: Europe is burning because people can't pay their bills. America should pay attention
In 1789, angry French citizens didn't have Facebook, Instagram or TikTok to complain about the cost of living. They had pitchforks. And torches. When bread prices became unbearable, thousands of women marched on the Palace of Versailles, demanding…
BOMBSHELL: Bernie Sanders ADMITS Medicare for All Is DEAD - Then Begs Trump to Sign It Anyway
Bernie Sanders finally said the quiet part out loud on national television: Medicare for All has no path to President Donald Trump's desk, no veto override, and no future. The Vermont Senator appeared on MSNBC's All In expecting to sell his latest…
Boosting healthcare and ending the Iran war are top of the to-do list for House Democrats once they have majority
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democratic leaders are placing an early emphasis on healthcare as they discuss their immediate priorities upon the swearing-in of the new Congress on Jan. 3. Early votes in the House next year are expected to focus on…
Simplify Alpha opens AI centre, plans to raise headcount to 1,000
Updated - November 09, 2026 at 10:10 PM. | Hyderabad Simplify Alpha, an arm of the Chicago-headquartered Simplify Group, has opened an AI engineering centre here, with plans to scale its headcount to 1,000 over the next two years. The company plans…
3 of the Best ETFs to Buy Before 2027
The market has spent much of 2026 fixated on artificial intelligence (AI) spending and the effects of high inflation. This month, investors also realized that Congress's composition is about to change dramatically, creating a potentially very…
'How long can I go on?': Cancer patients struggle as drug price caps offer little relief
The total treatment estimate given to Kumar's family was around Rs 20 lakh. A homemaker, she has no personal health insurance, while her husband works in the informal sales sector. Her brother, a professor, has health insurance but cannot extend…
Futures Rise As Dip Buyers Shrug Off Jensen's Spy Scandal, Oil Slides On Iran Hopes
US futures are higher as dip buyers return after the S&P's worst week since April 2025, oil extends its biggest weekly drop since April 2020 on Iran diplomacy hopes, and the market decides that Jensen Huang's affair with a suspected Chinese spy is…
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