House lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill Monday after being largely absent during the longest government shutdown in American history. And Democrats promised to return with a vengeance, saying they will not stand down on their demand to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies. But they are banking on Republican support.There are at least 25 different Republicans who in a variety of different ways over the last several weeks during the Trump Republican government shutdown indicated that there absolutely needed ...

22 million Americans find themselves this week after the government reopened without a deal to extend the subsidies that make their health insurance affordable. These subsidies were first put in place under the Affordable Care Act in 2014. The Affordable Care Act was introduced in 2010.The subsidies were put into place in 2014. They were expanded again in 2021. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that Americans receiving Obamacare subsidies paid an average of $888 in premiums this year.That's the bar on ...

South Korea plans to increase financial support for its automakers and raise car-buyer subsidies on EVs next year to help offset the costs from US tariffs and ease pressure from Chinese and other rivals https://t.co/Ienj23AgdL ...

Workers across the nation are in the thick of changing, renewing, or signing up for certain health care plans under the current open enrollment period. Millions of people could and actually very likely will see their insurance premiums rise pretty sharply next year. Joining us right now with insights on the current state of the health insurance industry is Mark Berlini. He is the CEO of Oscar Health. He's also the new chairman of Verizon and the former chairman and CEO of Etna, a longtime friend of the show ...

Why have health care costs been at the epicenter of the government shutdown negotiations. >> I mean, essentially, we're having a kind of proxy debate over the high and rising costs of health care and health insurance in the United States. So, the specific issue at the center of the government shutdown has been the enhanced subsidies which were passed by Congress as part of the CO 19 relief package back in 2021.So the way I think about this is that the United States during the pandemic kind of temporarily en ...

Government Initiatives - India is planning to subsidize airlines for operating flights to dormant airports [1]

We are in day 42 of the US government shutdown and small business owners are bracing for a steep rise in health care costs next year. Some are even saying that their premiums for health care insurance are set to nearly quadruple. For more, let's bring in Bloomberg's Caitlin Reilly.So, Caitlin, you spoke with a bunch of small business owners. What are they telling you in terms of the frustrations with the increased premiums. Well, they're weren't really worried. They're worried for a couple of reasons.First, ...

If Nicolás Maduro falls, then foes such as Cuba and Nicaragua will probably lose access to subsidised Venezuelan oil and be destabilised. Yet the dominoes could fall the other way https://t.co/GIkf4rDkbG ...

China’s generous local subsidies have helped it dominate high-tech industries such as electric vehicles and solar panels. But they’ve also helped fuel an oversupply of the same goods and a vicious price war. This new phenomenon of “involution” is damaging the country’s economy, as The Economist’s China economics editor, Simon Cox, explains.Find out what China’s government could do to turn things around: https://t.co/4DuPRbRuhz ...

Instead of subsidies to spur home construction, Labour is piling on costs, write @marcusashworth and @PensionmanUK (via @opinion) https://t.co/GQbcS7qKpU ...