The CEOs of five major health insurers are set to face a grilling from members of Congress on Thursday as House Republicans seek to place blame for rising health care costs. The back-to-back hearings before the Energy and Commerce and the Ways and Means committees come after Republicans allowed enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies to
Meghan and John Palmer own Prairie Star Farm in Allamakee County, Iowa. They say rising health care costs add to the financial pressures many farm families face.(Meghan Palmer) Last year was a tough one for farmers. Amid falling prices for commodity crops such as corn and soybeans, rising input costs for supplies like fertilizer and
Affordable Care Act signups are down in most states as the open enrollment period ends on Thursday, while federal lawmakers continued working on subsidies extension bills on Tuesday. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Jan. 13 (UPI) — The end of temporary subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance policies is raising rates
Skyrocketing health care costs are threatening early retirement dreams for millions of Americans. Enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies expired at the end of 2025 — leaving 24 million people facing a sharp rise in health insurance costs unless Congress acts. Middle-income Americans ages 50 to 64 are most at risk, according to KFF data
The Trump administration is facing a legal complaint from a group of government employees affected by a new policy going into effect Thursday that eliminates coverage for gender-affirming care in federal health insurance programs. The complaint, filed Thursday on the employees’ behalf by the Human Rights Campaign, is in response to an August announcement from
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 Republicans called for
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
ORANGE, Calif. — Carmen Basu, bundled in a red jacket and woolly scarf, stood outside the headquarters of her local health plan one morning after picking up free groceries. She had brought her husband, teenage son, and 79-year-old mother-in-law to help. They grabbed canned food, fruit and vegetables, and a grocery store gift card. And
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) responded to criticisms of health insurance companies from President Donald Trump by stating that “If you want to oust the insurance companies, let’s move to a Medicare for all plan,” and “The whole reason we’ve got the Affordable Care Act is because the Republicans
With subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance set to expire, Americans who rely on them will probably switch to plans with lower monthly premiums and high deductibles or decide not to purchase any coverage, which will have a serious and damaging impact on the entire sector, according to healthcare policy experts. The average
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
We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums in recent years. The
Health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are set to soar after Congress failed Thursday to pass a last-minute plan to avert the rate hikes. As many as 4 million people could be forced to go uninsured, because they can no longer afford their health plan. I spoke with some of them earlier
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
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
The federal health insurance exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act allowed the enrollment of fake beneficiaries and the payout of accompanying premium subsidies, a Government Accountability Office report published Wednesday found. The report, which included identity testing, analysis of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services enrollee data and an assessment of CMS’ fraud prevention efforts, found
Larry Humphreys, a retired Federal Emergency Management Agency worker in Moultrie, Georgia, says he and his wife won’t be traveling much next year after their monthly health insurance premium payment increases more than 40%, to $938. Humphreys, 68, feels betrayed by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. “As federal employees, we sacrificed good salaries in
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
For Neal Shah, the breaking point came during his wife’s cancer treatment. He remembers being overwhelmed, surrounded by stacks of hospital bills, denial notices and insurance statements. When he and his wife tallied everything — from monthly premiums and out-of-pocket costs to uncovered treatments — they realized the shocking truth that over the years, they
It’s that time of year again: open enrollment. With it comes a lot of questions: Do I go with an HMO or a PPO? Do I need an FSA or an HSA? What’s my deductible again? It’s very confusing, but one thing is clear: The cost of your health insurance is likely going up. Premiums
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