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Health insurance costs spike for businesses, workers after pandemic
3+ hour, 38+ min ago (170+ words) Health insurance costs spike for businesses, workers after pandemic'timesdaily.com A customer enters The Booksmith on Haight Street in San Francisco, on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025. Co-owner Christin Evans provides four of her employees with 100% free health insurance. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area…...
Alabamians brace for higher health care premiums
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (458+ words) WASHINGTON " Now that open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act marketplace has opened, insurance navigator Mark Linn's phone is ringing about eight times a day with Alabamians calling for help with enrolling in health coverage. WASHINGTON " Now that open enrollment…...
What to know as annual health insurance sign-up window arrives
2+ mon, 7+ hour ago (173+ words) Higher prices, less help and a government shutdown all hang over health insurance markets as shoppers start looking for coverage this week. Higher prices, less help and a government shutdown all hang over health insurance markets as shoppers start looking…...
Effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (114+ words) RALEIGH, N.C. " More than 2.5 million North Carolina residents are getting over $6.5 billion in medical debt eliminated through a state government effort that offered hospitals extra Medicaid funds from Washington if they gave patients the financial relief and implemented policies to discourage…...