1+ week, 5+ day ago (637+ words) Juan Ochoa Chicago Tribune FILE - Pages from the U.S. Affordable Care Act health insurance website healthcare.gov are seen on a computer screen in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. I remember the knot in my stomach when I had to tell one of my best workers at Miramar Group that we might not be able to keep offering affordable health coverage. He's been with me for years " reliable, hardworking, with two kids. The look on his face said everything: Without decent health insurance, his family is one accident away from financial ruin. That conversation haunts me because I know it's happening across Illinois right now. Families are opening their 2026 insurance renewal letters, and the numbers are devastating. This isn't an abstract policy debate in Washington " it's about real people in my community who are about to lose something they desperately need....

11+ hour, 53+ min ago (613+ words) By ALI SWENSON Associated Press U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during the Western Governors" Association meeting Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Scottsdale, Ariz. But the net prices it unveiled for a 30-day supply of each drug are not what Medicare recipients will pay at their pharmacy counters, since those final amounts will depend on each individual"s plan and how much they spend on prescriptions in a given year. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted the deals as part of the administration"s efforts to address affordability concerns among Americans. The Medicare drug negotiation program that made them possible is mandated by law and began under President Joe Biden"s administration. "President Trump directed us to stop at nothing to lower health care costs for the American people," Kennedy said in a statement Tuesday evening. "As we…...