The refusal to extend ACA subsidies becomes a huge political liability and signals deepening splits.
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Trump’s Health Care Cuts Are a War on Children
GOP funding cuts mean that more children will grow up with the lifelong implications of untreated illnesses.
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Republicans Scramble for Health Care Ideas as Obamacare Deadline Looms
Next week, massive premium increases get locked in. The GOP has shown no interest in stopping it, or preventing any other increases in health care costs.
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Trump’s Obamacare Plan Is Still Not Great
The Republican plan to more than double premiums is gone, but the insurance will get worse, and the poor will pay more.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: ACA Sticker Shock and AI Jitters
David and staff writer Whitney Curry Wimbish discuss skyrocketing health insurance costs and the sketchy deals at the heart of the data center boom.
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Panic Tears Through U.S. as Health Insurance Costs Spike
The end of expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act exchanges means more people will go without health insurance, workers, doctors, and researchers said.
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The Obamacare Boiler Room
Perhaps no Florida health care scam has so concisely illustrated the burning need to rethink our broken health care system.
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Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement
The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Shutdown Cave and the Next Health Care Fight
David Dayen and Prospect co-founder Bob Kuttner look at the politics and policy of the end of the government shutdown.
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The Shutdown’s End as a Republican Victory? No Way.
The shutdown enabled the Democrats to highlight the Republicans’ withdrawal of health coverage from millions of Americans, and Trump’s withholding food stamps—while he was praising himself for building a ballroom and rebuilding the Lincoln bathroom—only accelerated his descent in the polls.
