Obamacare

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed a year of changes at the Department of Health and Human Services and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on NPR’s 1A on Jan. 22. On CBS News 24/7’s The Daily Report on Jan. 16 and CBS Saturday Morning’s…

January 23, 2026 2:18 PM ET Democratic California Rep. Linda Sanchez appeared to slam the Affordable Care Act (ACA) during a Ways and Means Committee hearing with healthcare CEOs Thursday. While questioning Gail Boudreaux, the president and CEO of healthcare insurance company Elevance Health, Sanchez shared a personal story about…

Despite significant progress, bipartisan Senate negotiations on the subsidies seemed to be near collapse at the end of the week as the abortion dispute appears intractable. “Once we get past this issue, there’s decent agreement on everything else,” Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, who has led the talks, told reporters. But…

Barely two weeks into the new year, Americans are really feeling the crunch. The enhanced subsidies that made the Affordable Care Act more affordable for 22 million Americans last year expired at year’s end. Initial Obamacare enrollment has already dropped by 1.4 million people, and that number may be bleaker…

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Jan. 15, 2026, 5:23 PM EST Just last week, senators sounded optimistic that they were on the brink of a bipartisan deal to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that millions of Americans rely on to lower their insurance premiums. “We’re in the red zone,” Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio…

In 2012, voters in Wyoming were asked to approve on three changes to the state constitution: to preserve the right to hunt, fish, and trap; to expand the power of certain judicial employees; and to establish citizens’ authority to determine their own health-care choices. Billed as the Health Care Freedom…

Seventeen House Republicans joined Democrats on Thursday to extend the expiring enhanced Obamacare subsidies, pushing healthcare reform to the Senate. The House voted 230-196 to pass H.R. 1834, the Breaking the Gridlock Act, a bill that would extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, more formally known as the Enhanced Premium Tax…

Democrats and moderate Republicans hope the bill's passage will put pressure on the Senate to come up a bipartisan compromise...Read More

January 08, 2026 5:14 PM ET 17 House Republicans joined Democrats on Thursday to pass a three-year extension of COVID-era Obamacare subsidies that Congress allowed to expire at the end of 2025. The vote, which tallied 230-196, followed a move by nine moderate Republicans who backed a Democrat-led discharge petition…