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TODAY'S NUGGETS
❤️🩹 Your cough, their yacht. This week, millions of Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act marketplace to purchase health insurance are logging on to enroll for 2026 and facing roughly 26 percent higher premiums, thanks to Republicans’ decision to kill pandemic-era insurance subsidies. Since Obamacare passed in 2010, executives at the largest health insurers in the country have taken home hundreds of millions of dollars. Of $371 billion in profits between 2010 and 2024, top firms doled out $120 billion in lucrative stock buybacks and dividend payouts for top shareholders.
