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With subsidies that help consumers pay their health insurance premiums set to expire, health care shoppers face staggering prices. Lawmakers are running out of time to agree on a solution.
House Republicans unveiled a narrow health care package on Friday that does not extend soon-to-expire enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies — the latest sign that Congress is unlikely to avert skyrocketing insurance premiums for millions of Americans in the new year.
The health care bill that passed on Wednesday includes measures to make it easier for small employers to provide health insurance to employees. It also includes a measure to lower some ACA marketplace premiums, though the amount that most enrollees actually pay would rise, because of how subsidies are calculated.
If it weren’t for health care and social assistance, hiring would have been totally flat last month. And there are signs health care hiring growth may be slowing. “Health care is really the last remaining reliable source of jobs growth for today's job market,” said Daniel Zhao, chief economist at Glassdoor.
House Republicans have approved their version of a health care bill as the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies looms ever closer.
Health Policy Experts Identify Promising Strategies for Providing Health Care to Homeless People Organizations aiming to help homeless people with either housing or health care can be more effective when they form partnerships with other service groups, a Rutgers study has found.
Health care is a bright spot in the cooling job market. However, that poses risks to the economy if the sector falters.
Mental health providers often know what works for the people they serve. But there’s not enough resources to help everyone in need.
Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) on Wednesday read from a laundry list of President Donald Trump’s failed promises to deliver a new health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. In remarks on the House floor,