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Universal or single‑payer proposals would shift much of the roughly $536 billion employers now spend on premiums into public financing and could be funded with payroll‑style taxes smaller than current...
Federal poverty guidelines (FPL) are typically published by HHS in mid–to–late January and used by other programs with a one‑year lag; states generally start applying the new FPL for Medicaid/CHIP in ...
Alaska and Hawaii use higher Federal Poverty Level (FPL) dollar amounts than the contiguous 48 states and DC; for 2025 (used for many 2026 Marketplace calculations) the single-person FPL is $15,650 fo...
Public reporting does not offer a single, definitive breakdown of which racial or ethnic groups have seen the largest employment gains from DEI programs since 2015; available sources instead describe ...
Key 2026 changes retirees must watch: the IRS has delayed the effective date for many proposed SECURE Act RMD regulations until the 2026 distribution year, giving plan sponsors more time to implement ...
The Social Security “break-even” age is the point when the cumulative dollars you’d receive by delaying benefits catch up with the cumulative dollars from claiming earlier; most mainstream analyses pu...
Insurers’ 2026 filings show big increases: across the ACA Marketplaces insurers are proposing median gross premium hikes around 18% and average increases as high as 26% (with many filings clustered be...
Federal poverty guidelines used for health coverage rose each year from 2020 through 2025, with the 2025 guideline for a single person in the contiguous U.S. set at $15,650 — up from $15,060 in 2024 —...
The IRS updated mortality/life-expectancy tables that are used to compute required minimum distributions (RMDs); the updated tables lengthen life expectancies and therefore generally reduce RMD percen...
The IRS has pushed the applicability date for certain SECURE Act–related RMD regulations from the 2025 distribution year to no earlier than the 2026 distribution year, giving plan sponsors and recordk...
If you want an “official” source to convert 2026 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) annual figures into monthly or weekly income limits, the authoritative starting points are the HHS/ASPE poverty guidelines ...
President Trump signed a large and varied set of executive orders affecting health care during his presidencies; recent trackers and health-industry briefings list dozens of orders touching price tran...
Employer-sponsored coverage has historically shown lower estimated per-person premiums than individual marketplace plans, while overall premium inflation has varied: the CPI total-premium index rose a...