Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

As omicron drives surge in COVID-19 cases, HealthCare.gov sign-up deadline arrives

January 13, 2022 at 1:55 p.m.

People looking for health insurance in the grip of the omicron surge have through Saturday to sign up for taxpayer-subsidized private coverage under the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. President Joe...

FILE - In this April 16, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus, accompanied by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration's leading health experts on safely dealing with the novel coronavirus will be testifying in a Senate hearing by a videoconference after three of them and the committee's chairman were exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Fauci advierte sobre ‘sufrimiento y muertes innecesarias’

May 12, 2020 at 9:09 a.m.

El doctor Anthony Fauci, el principal especialista del país en enfermedades infecciosas, advertirá al Congreso que una reapertura precipitada durante la pandemia de coronavirus provocará "sufrimientos y muertes innecesarias". Fauci...

President Donald Trump listens during a news conference about the coronavirus in the press briefing room at the White House, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Se registra la primer muerte en EEUU por coronavirus

February 29, 2020 at 2:54 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Una mujer enferma de COVID-19 de casi 60 años de edad murió en el estado de Washington, informaron el sábado los funcionarios de salud estatales, con lo que...

A family of Central American migrants looks through the US-Mexico border fence, as seen from the Tijuana beach in Mexico, on Jan. 16, 2019.

U.S. government may have split up thousands more migrant families at border, watchdog says

August 22, 2019 at 10:19 a.m.

It seems likely that thousands more migrant children were split from their families than the Trump administration has acknowledged, in part because officials were stepping up family separations long before...

In this Oct. 18, 2017 photo, the Healthcare.gov website is seen on a computer screen in Washington. The government says about 8.8 million people have signed up for coverage next year under the Affordable Care Act. A deadline surge last week appears to account for the surprisingly strong numbers.

Trump says it’s imploding, but ‘Obamacare’ surprises with nearly 9 million signups

August 22, 2019 at 2:06 a.m.

In a remarkably strong show of consumer demand, nearly 9 million people signed up for "Obamacare" next year, as government numbers out Thursday proved predictions of its collapse wrong yet...

The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral move that follows failed efforts by Congress to overhaul the health care system.

White House to order health care alternatives

June 2, 2018 at 1:06 a.m.

The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral...

Obama veterans launch health insurance sign-up campaign

June 2, 2018 at 3:03 a.m.

Former Obama administration officials say they're launching a private campaign to encourage people to sign up for coverage next year under the Affordable Care Act. With the start of open...

Obama veterans launch health insurance sign-up campaign

June 2, 2018 at 3:03 a.m.

Former Obama administration officials say they're launching a private campaign to encourage people to sign up for coverage next year under the Affordable Care Act. With the start of open...

In this July 24, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and others, speaks about healthcare, in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington. A study by a nonpartisan group says the Trump administration's own actions are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased by millions of consumers.

Study: Trump actions trigger health premium hikes for 2018

August 22, 2019 at 12:26 a.m.

Actions by the Trump administration are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased by many people, according to a nonpartisan study. The analysis released Thursday by the...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to his seat for a luncheon between GOP leadership and President Donald Trump, Wednesday, July 19, 2017, in the State Dinning Room of the White House in Washington. Americans overwhelmingly want lawmakers of both parties to negotiate on health care, according to a new poll.

Poll: Negotiate on Obamacare; CBO says 32 million would lose insurance if GOP repeals

August 22, 2019 at 12:11 a.m.

Americans overwhelmingly want lawmakers of both parties to work out health care changes, with only 13 percent supporting Republican moves to repeal "Obamacare" absent a replacement, according to a new...

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