Farmers, Barbers, and GOP Lawmakers Grapple With the Fate of ACA Tax Credits
Small-business owners and their employees, who make up nearly half of the Obamacare marketplace, are worried about their health care and their livelihoods as insurance prices surge. Republicans, who have long opposed Obamacare, are at odds over how to respond to upset from one of their party鈥檚 most loyal constituencies.
What the Health? From 黑料吃瓜网 News: The State of the Affordable Care Act
Nov. 1 marked the start of open enrollment for 2026 health plans bought from Affordable Care Act marketplaces in most states. But this sign-up season is like no other in the health law鈥檚 15-year history. It remains unclear, even at this late date, whether expanded tax credits launched during the pandemic in 2021 will be continued or allowed to expire, exposing millions of Americans to much higher out-of-pocket costs. In this special episode of 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 from 黑料吃瓜网 News and WAMU, host Julie Rovner interviews KFF vice president Cynthia Cox about the past, present, and possible future of the health law and how those who purchase ACA coverage should proceed during this time of uncertainty.
White House Calls This 9/11-Era Fund 鈥榃asteful.鈥 Red and Blue States Rely on It.
States from California to Texas say they rely on tens of millions in federal funding to help them prepare for the next pandemic, cyberattack, or mass-casualty catastrophe. The Trump administration wants to cut it.
While Politicos Dispense Blame, These Doctors Aim To Take Shame Out of Medicine
Clinicians and researchers are starting to embrace an effort to develop what鈥檚 known as 鈥渟hame competence鈥 in physicians to combat burnout and prevent that uncomfortable emotion from being passed along to patients.
Is Covid During Pregnancy Linked to Autism? What a New Study Shows, and What It Doesn’t
Massachusetts researchers examine how growth and learning are subtly shaped among children whose mothers had covid while pregnant.
An Arm and a Leg: This Health Economist Wants Your Medical Bills
Louisiana Took Months To Sound Alarm After Two Babies Died in Whooping Cough Outbreak
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Congressional Stalemate Creates Chaos for Obamacare Shoppers
From Narcan to Gun Silencers, Opioid Settlement Cash Pays Law Enforcement Tabs
Sock Hops and Concerts: How Some Places Spent Opioid Settlement Cash
Trump鈥檚 HHS Orders State Medicaid Programs To Help Find Undocumented Immigrants
The Nation鈥檚 Largest Food Aid Program Is About To See Cuts. Here鈥檚 What You Should Know.
Journalists Help Make Sense of Government Shutdown and Obamacare Open Enrollment
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So Your Insurance Dropped Your Doctor. Now What?
Patients sometimes find themselves scrambling for affordable care when a contract dispute causes a hospital 鈥 and most of the doctors and other clinicians who work there 鈥 to be dropped from an insurance network. Here are six things to know if that happens to you.
