Republicans in Congress are offering more chaos and instability to the healthcare system because they refuse to extend the ACA subsidies and have no actual plan to help the American public with their skyrocketing healthcare insurance costs. Rep. Steve Scalise, the House Majority Leader, has an idea.

By uncoupling insurance from jobs and relationships, the New York Health Act would free us to plan our lives on our own terms.

Police place bullet casing markers outside a Hilton Hotel in New York City where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on Dec. 4, 2024. Spencer Platt/Getty Images As many recent stories of health insurance denials in the news show ...

And the tax credit that kept her monthly insurance premiums so low (“I mean, ‘low’ — in air quotes,” she says) will expire at the end of the year, pushing her costs up to more than $600 a month. She’s choosing to forgo health insurance instead.

REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR NOW. THE CLOCK IS TICKING ON HEALTH CARE COVERAGE FOR MILLIONS OF FLORIDIANS. A FEDERAL TAX CREDIT THAT HELPS PEOPLE PAY FOR THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE IS SET TO EXPIRE IN JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS. ARI HAIT JOINS ME NOW IN THE STUDIO WITH ...

Police place bullet casing markers outside a Hilton Hotel in New York City where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on Dec. 4, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) As many recent stories of health insurance denials in the news show ...

Dividing Americans into multiple risk pools increases health care costs. And it limits the ability to debate an insurance system almost nobody understands.

Seven years ago, when Austinites Andrew and Stephanie Szatan had their son Jude at St. David's South Austin Medical Center, they received a $1,000 bill from a pediatrician who was out of network with their insurance and who only briefly looked at their new ...