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The central fight in the U.S. federal government shutdown has been over healthcare costs, with Democrats demanding that Republicans agree to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act set to expire this Saturday. Without an extension of those subsidies, health premiums could more than double for millions of people across the country. The enhanced subsidies were first put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The purpose of healthcare has increasingly become profit-making rather than a public service," says Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of public health at Hunter College and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. She says that while extending the Obamacare subsidies is vital, the United States should move toward universal public healthcare like every other major Western economy "and away from our private, profit-oriented healthcare system."
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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettyWelcome to October Surprise, the Daily Beast's daily countdown to the biggest election of our lifetime. It's only 20 days until Election Day and here's what's happening in the race to the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
THE DOWNLOADMore than 100 Republican officials who support Kamala Harris for president planned to join the vice president in Pennsylvania on Wednesday for a stunning public rebuke of Donald Trump, their own party's presidential candidate.
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EXCLUSIVE: The White House is firing back at Republicans who say the Biden administration is selling oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.
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A New York man who helped thwart an attack on GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin at a campaign stop said the alleged attacker "lunged" at the Congressman with a blade.
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