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Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans
The Senate has rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
WASHINGTON—A Democratic effort to extend expiring healthcare subsidies drew some Republican votes but failed Thursday to advance in the Senate, and a GOP approach also failed, leaving no clear path in Congress for aiding millions of Americans facing soaring Affordable Care Act insurance costs next year.
The Senate rejected rival partisan health plans Thursday, three weeks before premiums for some Americans enrolled in Affordable Care Act exchanges are due to more than double.
At the Senate HELP Committee hearing, Long COVID activists demand the disease be declared a national emergency. Screengrab from Sen. Bernie Sanders' YouTube video Only 10 minutes into the hearing, activists stepped into the center of the floor, holding ...
Many lawmakers have reported receiving a deluge of calls from constituents about the Unemployment Insurance Agency's pursuit of overpaid jobless aid.
Congress should allow the COVID-19 subsidies to end. The Affordable Care Act's underlying subsidies are already extraordinarily large.
Robert Moffit, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Did you know that four months before the world had ever heard of COVID-19—on Sept. 3, 2019—authorities in the Veneto region of ...
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'How can you be that ignorant?': RFK Jr. takes it hard on the chin as senator grills him over his incompetence in Senate hearing
During a Senate Finance Committee hearing several weeks ago in September, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) harshly lambasted RFK Jr. over his incompetence as HHS Secretary, calling him out on his ignorance.
Senate Republicans plan to vote this week on a likely futile plan to counter Democrats’ push to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies as health care costs for more than 20 million people are set to spike on Jan.
Sen. Roger Marshall’s voice was shaking with emotion as he made the case for speedy and focused research into long COVID. Marshall, the junior senator from Kansas, is a Republican and a medical doctor. But addressing the first-ever Senate hearing on long ...
Researchers found that Covid vaccines reduced the risk of emergency room and urgent care visits by 56% to 76%. Some federal health officials have sowed doubt about the shots.