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Health subsidies expire, launching millions of Americans into 2026 with steep insurance hikes
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired overnight, cementing higher health costs for millions of Americans at the start of the new year. Democrats forced a 43-day government shutdown over the issue. Moderate
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Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: On January 1st, tens of millions in the United States will see their health insurance costs soar, when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire. Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or triple for some 20 million
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4 House Republicans Join Democrats to Force Vote on ACA Tax Credits Extension
Millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums could double if the credits aren’t renewed by the end of this year. A sign that reads “Affordable Care Act Premiums Will Rise More Than 75%” during a news conference led by Democrats to call on Republicans to pass Affordable Care Act tax breaks on Capitol Hill on September
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An Arm and a Leg: How To Pick Health Insurance — In the Worst Year Ever
Note: “An Arm and a Leg” uses speech-recognition software to generate transcripts, which may contain errors. Please use the transcript as a tool but check the corresponding audio before quoting the podcast. Dan hosting: Hey there. As we started writing up this episode, the U.S. government was starting to re-open, after the longest shutdown ever.
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Poll: Most are satisfied with their health insurance, but a quarter report denials or delays
An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults are satisfied with their health insurance coverage overall, including most older Americans and those on Medicare and Medicaid, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey. But there is an undercurrent of frustration in the findings, too, with nearly one-quarter of respondents saying they’d been
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Without subsidies, health care will get costlier for these 3 families
NEW YORK (AP) — For one Wisconsin couple, the loss of government-sponsored health subsidies next year means choosing a lower-quality insurance plan with a higher deductible. For a Michigan family, it means going without insurance altogether. For a single mom in Nevada, the spiking costs mean fewer Christmas gifts this year. She is stretching her
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Headlines for December 12, 2025
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Senate rejects 2 rival health care proposals as higher insurance costs loom
NEW YORK (AP) — When senators voted on rival health bills Thursday, they had two chances to address expiring COVID-era subsidies that will result in millions of Americans saddled with higher insurance costs in the new year. But the Senate rejected both, and hopes of solving the problem this year are running dry. Affordable Care
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Affordable Care Act enrollment is slightly ahead of last year so far
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans signing up for Affordable Care Act health insurance for 2026 is moderately higher than it was at a similar time last year, initial new federal data shows, even as subsidies set to expire at the end of 2025 will
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Luigi, a Year Later: How to Build a Movement Against Parasitic Health Insurance Giants
Luigi Mangione appears for the second day of a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on Dec. 2, 2025 in New York City. Photo: Curtis Means/Pool via Getty Images Sam Beard is a spokesperson for the December 4 Legal Committee, whose book Depose: Luigi Mangione and
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New poll shows ACA enrollees are struggling with health costs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty-two-year-old Dinam Bigny sank into debt and had to get a roommate this year, in part because of health insurance premiums that cost him nearly $900 per month. Next year, those monthly fees will rise by $200 — a significant enough increase that the program manager in Aldie, Virginia, has resigned himself
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Close the Gaps in Data Center Project Insurance Policies, Say Risk Managers
Photo by Gerville/Getty Images Costs per megawatt, the measure of a data center project such as this one under construction in Ashburn, Va., have risen dramatically in recent years, stretching the limits of insurance coverage. C ontractors considering a ride into or already riding the data center building surge would do well to sit down
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Close the Gaps in Data Center Project Insurance Policies, Says Major Contractor
Photo by Gerville/Getty Images Costs per megawatt, the measure of a data center project such as this one under construction in Ashburn, Va., have risen dramatically in recent years, stretching the limits of insurance coverage. C ontractors considering a ride into or already riding the data center building surge would do well to sit down
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Democrats’ ‘Principled Stand’ on the Shutdown Is an Attempt to Pay Back Their Health Insurance Donors
The following content is sponsored by American Resolve. Ever since the disaster of Obamacare was unleashed on the American public, our healthcare system has only gotten worse – except for the insurance companies, who bathed in massive profits thanks to their pal Obama. Some health insurance stocks are up 1,000 percent in the last 15
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What new Epstein emails say. And, ACA subsidies in limbo
Epstein Documents Dump, Government Reopens, Affordable Care Act Limbo Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories The House Oversight Committee yesterday released over 20,000 documents turned over to Congress
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House set to vote on deal to end shutdown amid Democratic splits – US politics live
House Democrats release emails that allege Trump knew about Epstein’s crimes In a new batch of emails released by Democrats on the House oversight committee, Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump knew about the late financier and sex-offender’s crimes. In the three emails released, Epstein apparently told his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump “spent hours”
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Here’s what could happen to expiring health subsidies as a deal to end the shutdown emerges
NEW YORK (AP) — A legislative package that appears on track to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history leaves out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly for millions of Americans. The deal agreed to by Senate Republicans and a handful
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Chabria: Democrats crumble like cookies. Is this really the best they can do?
Democrats just crumbled like soft-bake cookies. The so-called resistance party has given up the shutdown fight, ensuring that millions of Americans will face Republican-created skyrocketing healthcare costs, and millions more will bury any hope that the minority party will find the substance and leadership to run a viable defense against President Trump. Sunday night, eight
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Headlines for November 7, 2025
Headlines November 07, 2025 Watch Headlines Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces Agree to Humanitarian Ceasefire Nov 07, 2025 In Sudan, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said Thursday they’ve agreed to a U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal to end more than two years of a devastating war with the Sudanese military. The truce was brokered by a U.S.-led group
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End the shutdown? That’ll point Congress back to Obamacare’s rising costs.
At the heart of what is now the longest U.S. government shutdown in history are federal subsidies that millions of Americans use to purchase health insurance on government-run marketplaces. The shutdown began as Democrats dug in their heels to prevent these subsidies from expiring. And now, members of Congress are facing increasing pressure to end
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Why are my health insurance premiums going up so much?
Many Americans are going to have sticker shock when they sign up for health insurance this year. For the roughly half of Americans who get insurance through their work, premiums are set to grow by another 6 percent on average, up to roughly $27,000 per year for family coverage. That is a 26 percent increase
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SNAP uncertainty deepens as shutdown fight reaches a crisis point
WASHINGTON (AP) — The crises at the heart of the government shutdown fight in Washington were coming to a head Saturday as the federal food assistance program faced delays and millions of Americans were set to see a dramatic rise in their health insurance bills. The impacts on basic needs — food and medical care
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Millions Face Soaring Health Insurance Premiums If ACA Subsidies Aren’t Extended
The central fight in the U.S. federal government shutdown has been over healthcare costs, with Democrats demanding that Republicans agree to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act set to expire this Saturday. Without an extension of those subsidies, health premiums could more than double for millions of people across the country. The enhanced subsidies
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Millions Face Soaring Health Insurance Premiums as GOP Refuses to Extend Obamacare Subsidies
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. As the U.S. federal government shutdown enters its 28th day, we now look at how Democrats are demanding Republicans agree to extend healthcare subsidies from the Affordable Care Act
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GOP confronts voter fear over rising health care premiums
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first caller on a telephone town hall with Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, leader of the House’s conservative Freedom Caucus, came ready with a question about the Affordable Care Act. Her cousin’s disabled son is at risk of losing the insurance he gained under that law, the caller said. “Now she’s looking
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Some furloughed health workers to return for open enrollment
NEW YORK (AP) — The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will temporarily bring all its furloughed employees back to work starting Monday to manage health insurance open enrollment, according to an agency spokesperson. The recall to duty amid the more than three-week-long government shutdown is what’s needed to “best serve the American people amid
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These people will lose if Affordable Care Act health subsidies expire
TYLER, Texas (AP) — Celia Monreal worries every day about the cartilage loss in her husband’s knees. Not just because it’s hard for her to see him in pain but also because she knows soon their health care costs could skyrocket. Monreal, 47, and her husband, Jorge, 57, rely on the Affordable Care Act marketplace
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When a health insurance company refuses to pay for treatment, most people begrudgingly accept the decision. Few patients appeal; some don’t trust the insurer to reverse its own decision. But a little-known process
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There Are 72% More Condo Sellers Than Buyers in the U.S.
Would-be condo buyers are spooked by high costs, including rising HOA dues and insurance fees–but the silver lining is bargaining power. The gap between sellers and buyers has shrunk since springtime, though, when there were 81% more sellers. There were an estimated 72.3% more condo sellers than buyers (108,945 more) nationwide in August. That marks
