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Breaking News in Healthcare Reform
“Premiums get so high that only the sickest of the sickest people are enrolled, and eventually insurance companies just are not going to want to participate in a market like that — it’s just not going to function.”
Why the ACA Needs Young People — And the Looming ‘Death Spiral’ for Health Insurance
NPR | Selena Simmons-Duffin | October 26, 2025
“Republican policies that would put new curbs on reenrollment for the enhanced insurance subsidies that are at the core of Democrats’ shutdown demands.”
Obamacare ‘Auto-Enrollees’ Are Key Target as Republicans Formulate Tax-Credit Extension Plan
Politico | Meredith Lee Hill | October 23, 2025
“A 2020 analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found that Medicare for All would benefit companies and workers by supporting self-employment and small business development, boosting wages, increasing job quality, and lessening the stress and economic shock of losing or changing employment. That same year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that shifting to Medicare for All could save $650 billion annually.”
CNBC Host Doesn’t Know How to Fix Runaway Healthcare Costs. Ro Khanna Says: Medicare for All
Common Dreams | Jessica Corbett | October 23, 2025
“…as the insurance premiums are going up, the subsidies … make that affordable for people. They can’t afford it, in other words, without the subsidy.”
Why Millions of Americans Are Facing a Spike in Health Care Costs
PBS | Amna Nawaz, Karina Cuevas | October 22, 2025
“…in America, 66% of bankruptcies are linked to medical issues, and 80% of those who went bankrupt had health insurance when they incurred the debt.”
Universal Healthcare Will Save Lives … And Could Save the Democratic Party
Common Dreams | Diljeet K. Singh | October 22, 2025
“Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system underperforms. … But neither restoring the pre-Trump status quo, nor further attempts to reconcile the human rights of patients with the property claims of investors will suffice. Reforms must, instead, decommercialise insurance and care provision.”
Health Care in the USA: Money Has Become the Mission
The Lancet | Adam Gaffney MD, Prof Steffie Woolhandler MD, Prof David U Himmelstein MD, Danny McCormick MD| October 21, 2025
“The poll found that about 4 in 10 Americans are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ concerned about not being able to pay for health care or medications they need, not being able to access health care when they need it, or losing or not having health insurance.”
What Americans Think About Rising Health Care Costs, According to a New AP-NORC Poll
Associated Press | Ali Swenson, Linley Sanders | October 21, 2025
“Workers are likely to pay between 6% to 7% more for their 2026 employer-sponsored health insurance, more than double the current rate of inflation, according to a new analysis from consultant Mercer.”
Your Health Insurance Premiums Are Set to Jump in 2026, With Costs Rising Twice as Fast as Inflation
CBS News | Aimee Picchi | October 20, 2025
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