The Trump administration is quietly moving to change the Affordable Care Act to let health insurers offer people loans to pay for their care.
Deep in a document over 1,000 pages long about how the Affordable Care Act market will operate next year, the administration suggests that insurers consider offering loans to cash-strapped customers.
Under this approach, people who develop a costly disease or need unexpected emergency care would turn to their health insurer for loans.
A third of American households already have medical debt, and this approach would mean even more debt that patients owe to their health insurance companies.
The insurers, who already make billions, would stand to make even more.
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That was exhausting! With our backs against the wall, Canes win a great one. Loved that empty netter by Ehlers. The luck of the puck. 2-2 heading back to Raleigh. Let’s go, Canes!
Koch family can spend approx $10 billion dollars to invest in an NFL team but can't find funding to rid our water sources of PFAS that their factories put there. ridiculous.
Duke Energy, which enjoys a monopoly on electricity to most of North Carolina, has announced that they made almost a billion dollars in profit last year - up 7.6% from last year.
North Carolina's Republican-led state legislature also just gave them permission to raise our electricity rates, overriding Governor Josh Stein's veto to do so.
The city of Washington, D.C. belongs to the great people of Washington, D.C., not the occupant of the White House.
If he actually cared about the wellbeing of the people of Washington, he wouldn't have blocked D.C. from spending its OWN money in the way it saw fit.
This is not only drastic executive overreach but the latest marker in how far this President is willing to go to attack our democracy.
i'm not one who focuses on national politics as a priority but this action is unprecedented and violating the minimal autonomy that DC already has. if this allowed to become a precedent, it will follow to other cities.
The Administration’s actions are unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful.
There is no crime emergency in the District of Columbia. Violent crime in DC reached historic 30-year lows last year, and is down another 26% so far this year.
We are considering all of our options and will do what is necessary to protect the rights and safety of District residents.
Rep. Cunningham’s remarks this week were disgusting and a betrayal of the very communities she was elected to serve.
To say “all cultures are not equal” is completely disqualifying and has no place in our party. #ncpol
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it’s the final minutes of north carolina day today. there is not much to celebrate but i am amazed by the resilience and resolve of our people. the situation here is bad and the worst is yet to come—please pray for our state and help where you can. wnc needs everyone’s support
hot take of the week: please mute the mics for the pres debate. i understand from harris' campaign team why you wouldn't want to, but harris beats trump on every policy issue and i think letting america hear that is just as important