For those without insurance, currently 8.2% of all Americans, paying cash for health care is the only option. However, even for those with health coverage, paying cash is becoming an attractive option. Rising health care costs are motivating Americans to seek medical discounts. “The United States often pays higher prices for the same brand-name prescription…
A U.S. Senate investigation has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers across the country — detainees are denied insulin, left without medical care for days and forced to compete for clean water — raising scrutiny over how the government oversees its vast detention system. The report…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some senators know it. House Speaker Mike Johnson knows this. And with President Donald Trump back in Washington after his trip abroad, perhaps the White House knows it too. For many, it is time for the government shutdown to end. From coast to coast, the consequences of the dysfunction of a closed…
New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen added her voice to the chorus of Democrats, some Republicans, and numerous experts sounding the alarm about the consequences of letting the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of this year. The senator appeared on the CNBC program. Squawk Box recently to explain how…
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sharply broke with her party leaders Wednesday as they tried to project a united front in the deepening standoff with Democrats over health care and the government shutdown, calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the House back into session and warning that Americans would be hit with higher costs…
Federal Government Shutdown Enters Second Week, But Quiet Talks Emerge WASHINGTON (AP) — Tours of the Capitol have come to a standstill. The House keeps its doors closed, while the Senate is stuck in a loop of failed votes on a rejected plan to reopen the government. President Donald Trump is threatening to lay off…
