End of Expanded Premium Tax Credit Would Drive Uninsured Rates Higher Congress temporarily enhanced the premium tax credit through the American Rescue Plan, and extended the measure via the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), helping nearly 20 million pe ... 12/17/2024 - 3:30 am | View Link
Extended Deadline: Secure Health Insurance for January Coverage by Tomorrow The deadline to sign up for a Health Insurance Marketplace plan that starts Jan. 1 has been extended to Dec. 18. Apply for premium tax credits to reduce how much you pay. 12/17/2024 - 2:34 am | View Link
Hispanic/Latino Adults Lack Adequate, Affordable Health Insurance Coverage When it comes to health care costs, more than half (52%) of Hispanic/Latino adults said that, because of costs, they either did not fill a prescription, did not go for follow-up tests or specialty ... 12/16/2024 - 4:35 pm | View Link
Fewer than half of Latinos in the U.S. have adequate health insurance coverage Latinos in the United States are less likely to have adequate health insurance than Americans overall, according to a survey released Tuesday by the health research nonprofit The Commonwealth ... 12/16/2024 - 3:01 pm | View Link
How UnitedHealthcare and other mega-insurers came to dominate the $4.5 trillion health care industry that Americans both hate and rely upon This year, the average premium for family coverage Is $25,572 ... is the case for many underinsured and uninsured Americans—you risk suffering greater harm. “What insurers are trying to do is keep ... 12/16/2024 - 7:15 am | View Link
(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it.
The justices will hear arguments Jan. 10 about whether the law impermissibly restricts speech in violation of the First Amendment.
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The law, enacted in April, set a Jan.
America’s political divide is likely to get even wider thanks to a new real-estate app that lets potential buyers see the political affiliations of their future neighbors, The Guardian reports.
Kamala Harris campaign staffers asked Apple for help a week before the election to inquire about whether their phones had been hacked, but Apple declined to assist, Forbes reports.
Wall Street Journal: “Many in Trump’s inner circle believed that Pompeo, who served as secretary of state during Trump’s first term, was the clear front-runner to be the next defense secretary. The day before the election, Trump praised Pompeo during a campaign rally, marveling at his recent weight loss and twice calling him handsome.”
“But to Carlson—the former Fox News host who continues to have deep influence in conservative circles—Pompeo was a risky pick.
“Add Uber Technologies and its CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, to the list of tech companies pouring money into President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Uber and Khosrowshahi don’t have the historical antipathy with Trump that made donations by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon.com so notable, but the company’s chief legal officer, Tony West, is Vice President Kamala Harris’s brother-in-law and took a leave of absence to volunteer for her presidential campaign.
An California judge barred a former boyfriend of Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) from contacting her or her children for the next five years and said he had committed domestic abuse by sending the congresswoman hundreds of threatening and harassing messages, the Los Angeles Times reports.