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cbsnews.com - What we know about the future of health insurance tax subsidies
What we know about the future of health insurance tax subsidies
CBS News

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.

afr.com - Michael Smith - Hospitals accuse health insurers of 'dirty tricks'
Hospitals accuse health insurers of 'dirty tricks'
Australian Financial Review

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…

newsweek.com - Jenna Sundel - Luigi Mangione gets surprise court win
Luigi Mangione gets surprise court win
Newsweek

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…

nydailynews.com - Molly Crane-Newman - NY federal judge reverses course in Luigi Mangione case, orders hearing on Altoona backpack search
NY federal judge reverses course in Luigi Mangione case, orders hearing on Altoona backpack search
New York Daily News

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…

msmagazine.com - Jennifer Weiss-Wolf - Predictions for Women's Health in 2026: A Dark Year, With a Few Bright Spots
Predictions for Women's Health in 2026: A Dark Year, With a Few Bright Spots
Ms. Magazine

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…

nola.com - Stephanie Riegel - Christine O'Brien, UnitedHealthcare CEO for La.-Miss., wants to lower insurance costs. Here's how
Christine O'Brien, UnitedHealthcare CEO for La.-Miss., wants to lower insurance costs. Here's how
NOLA.com

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…

ajc.com - Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia  Murphy, Adam Beam - 7 predictions for Georgia's 2026 legislative session
7 predictions for Georgia's 2026 legislative session
ajc

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…

newsweek.com - Tony LoSasso and Kosali Simon - Subsidies are not health care reform | Opinion
Subsidies are not health care reform | Opinion
Newsweek

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…

thehill.com - Austin Sarat, opinion contributor - For 80 years, Republicans have blocked us from fixing our health care system
For 80 years, Republicans have blocked us from fixing our health care system
The Hill

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…

foxnews.com - Michael Ruiz - Why political assassination cases aren't automatically death penalty eligible
Why political assassination cases aren't automatically death penalty eligible
Fox News

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…

bloomberg.com - John Tozzi - UnitedHealth Used 'Aggressive' Medicare Strategy, Senate Report Says
UnitedHealth Used 'Aggressive' Medicare Strategy, Senate Report Says
Bloomberg

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…

afr.com - Timothy Moore - ASX 200 LIVE: ASX to rise, Wall St steady after latest attack on Powell
ASX 200 LIVE: ASX to rise, Wall St steady after latest attack on Powell
Australian Financial Review

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…

washingtonexaminer.com - Christian Datoc - Will any of Trump's affordability 'spaghetti' help the GOP in 2026?
Will any of Trump's affordability 'spaghetti' help the GOP in 2026?
Washington Examiner

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…

bloomberg.com - Stock Movers: Capital One, UnitedHealth, Shake Shack
Stock Movers: Capital One, UnitedHealth, Shake Shack
Bloomberg

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…

asiatimes.com - Drew Altman - See Trump foreign policy patterns in Art of the Deal health care
See Trump foreign policy patterns in Art of the Deal health care
Asia Times

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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