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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…
What you need to know to pick the right health insurance plan heading into 2027
Emily Brindley with the Dallas Morning News tells you where to start when picking the best health plan for you and your family.
Rutgers receives grant to explore drug overdose trends among youth
With a $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Rutgers researchers will conduct a five-year study exploring trends in drug overdoses in adolescents and young adults. Drug overdose deaths have risen sharply over the past decade…
Break up the real medical cartel
It's easy to blame so-called Big Medicine for our healthcare affordability crisis. These large vertically integrated companies, such as CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group, combine healthcare providers, insurers that pay for care, and middlemen who…
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…
The Real Cost of Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Is Just Beginning
This article originally appears in the Fall 2026 issue of Ms., as “The Bill That Keeps on Taking.” Become a Ms. member today and get print issues delivered right to your mailbox. In July 2025, Republicans in Congress passed, and…
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.
Sometimes You Need to Travel to See Your Life Clearly
My financial advisor's corner office literally hovered above Seattle's Lake Union. A bald eagle soared past the window. I wondered what it would be like to work in a room with a window—never mind a view. “Let's look at your…
NY Times Rejoices on Page 1: Youth 'Swept Out the Stodgy...Wealthy Middle-Aged Men
The elitist media is feeling cocky after the Democratic Party's big midterm victory, as demonstrated by the satisfaction oozing off the front of Sunday's New York Times, in a story from Times writer-at-large Sabrina Tavernise and polling editor…
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…
Crowley 'not worried' about $2B cost estimate if Act 10 is overturned
(The Center Square) - Democratic Gov.-elect David Crowley said he is not concerned with estimates that ending Wisconsin's Act 10 would cost state taxpayers $2 billion annually. That includes more than $1.5 billion to the state's schools and nearly…
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