Protect Our Care

Obamacare premiums are set to rise by a median of 14% in 2027, the second consecutive year of double-digit increases, driven by rising healthcare costs and expired subsidies. Higher out-of-pocket costs are causing some healthier enrollees to drop coverage, worsening the affordability crisis and shrinking the insurance market, which now has 19.2 million enrollees, down 3 million from the previous year.

A report notes a decline in Medicaid and ACA enrollment by over 5 million due to Trump's healthcare bill and expired subsidies. Ohio's Catholic bishops criticize the Trump administration's termination of Haitian TPS as a 'moral failure.' A no-bid federal contract for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, awarded to a company linked to Ohio businessman John J. Cafaro, has drawn scrutiny.

Protect Our Care, a progressive health care group, released a critical report on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first 14 months as Health and Human Services Secretary. The report comes ahead of congressional hearings where Kennedy will defend President Trump's budget request.