Obamacare

Democrats are growing increasingly concerned that a spike in ObamaCare premiums could hit this fall right before the midterm elections.   The party is already facing major headwinds from inflation and President Biden’s lagging approval ratings, and a health care premium spike would add a major blow.  The American Rescue Plan signed by…

Commentary Last month, President Biden proposed fixing the so-called “family glitch,” a quirk in Obamacare’s text that has prevented millions of people from purchasing subsidized coverage through the exchanges. It’s only the latest attempt to gift more people taxpayer-sponsored health coverage. The result will be rising premiums, fewer coverage options,…

President Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for high gasoline prices Friday and urged Congress to lower everyday costs for Americans by empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices and extending supersized Obamacare subsidies and a popular tax credit for families. Mr. Biden faces pressure to rein in runaway costs for…

Former President Barack Obama returned to the White House Tuesday for the first time since he left office. He joined his former second-in-command, President Joe Biden, to announce expansions to the Affordable Care Act. CBS News' Natalie Brand joins "Red & Blue" to discuss the former president's visit and the…

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It’s hardly a secret that Republicans are optimistic about their chances in this year’s midterm elections, and their confidence is rooted in reality. Not only does the historical pattern bode well for the GOP — the president’s party nearly always suffers in his second year — but recent polling suggests…

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Then newly-elected Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaks during a news conference at the U.S Capitol in Washington, D.C., in 2004. (Shaun Heasley/Reuters) Harry Reid, a 30-year veteran of the upper chamber of Congress and former boxer who led the Senate Democrats from 2005 to 2017, passed away at…

It has been, in the words of one unhappy Mississippi call center worker, “a hard pill to swallow.” Every day Lanycha Hall, who works for the federal contractor Maximus at its facility in Hattiesburg, helps people enroll in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. But Hall said she can’t afford…