Higher prices, less help and a government shutdown all hang over health insurance markets as shoppers start looking for coverage this week.The annual enrollment window for millions of people to pick ...

The NPR Politics Podcast breaks down the central policy issue behind the government shutdown: enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. We don't know when the federal ...

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, says that during the current federal government shutdown that has been driven in part by Democrats' insistence that Affordable Care Act ...

Under a new Trump administration rule, automated systems are flagging discrepancies under $10 as fraud. Here’s how one woman ...

The government shutdown has focused debate on the vast sum ($136 billion in 2025, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office) that the federal government spends to annually subsize continually ...

Whether you’re new to picking a health insurance plan, or you’ve already had to do it many, many times, it can be a bit of a slog. There’s so much to look through and many decisions to make, but it’s ...

Barely two weeks into the new year, Americans are really feeling the crunch. The enhanced subsidies that made the Affordable Care Act more affordable for 22 million Americans last year expired at year ...