Health News ‘obamacare’ Enrollment Opens, As Republicans Threaten The Health Insurance Program Used By Millions

Bipartisan deal on Obamacare subsidies fades as Republicans push HSA plan

Obamacare subsidies set to expire as Senate struggles to reach bipartisan agreement, with Republicans and Democrats divided on reform approaches. Read More

Are Republicans going to do a deal on health care?

Republicans are sending mixed signals about extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies due to expire at year’s end. President Donald Trump has suggested both that he would do a deal and that he would ... Read More

Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January

Billions of dollars in tax credits under the Affordable Care Act are poised to expire at the end of the year. Lawmakers in both parties say they're nowhere close to a deal to renew them. Read More

Obamacare subsidies expire this month. Many Republicans are shrugging.

Democrats set the subsidy expiration date at the end of this year as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act to keep that law’s costs down. It passed with zero Republican votes. The Congressional ... Read More

A Republican plan for affordable health care

Republicans have successfully blocked Democrats’ efforts to reauthorize the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies, and are now looking to introduce their own health care reforms, ... Read More

As health insurance bills rise, Republicans are still seeking an Obamacare alternative

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson says he still has “PTSD” from the GOP’s failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act during President Donald Trump’s first term. Now, the party ... Read More

Obamacare enrollee sees premium spike as sign-ups begin: 'This will devastate us'

WASHINGTON -- Stacy Cox used one word repeatedly as she described how she felt after learning her ACA premium could jump over 300% without the enhanced tax credits: "devastating." "I don't know if ... Read More

Republicans scramble for health care plan, as Democrats eye midterm battle

Republicans in Washington successfully defused the 43-day government shutdown without surrendering to Democrats’ demands to spend billions more to offset spiking health insurance costs. Now, the GOP ... Read More

Health care sticker shock as Affordable Care Act enrollment begins

Long Islanders signing up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act beginning Saturday may suffer sticker shock, with some monthly premiums reaching thousands of dollars and no sign of an ... Read More