{"id":40077,"date":"2026-01-02T22:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=40077"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:59:37","slug":"how-fragile-is-the-us-healthcare-system-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=40077","title":{"rendered":"How fragile is the US healthcare system? | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Americans are facing a huge increase in the amount they have to pay for health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>A dispute about government subsides for healthcare was one of the major issues that led to a 43-day shutdown of the US government last year \u2013 the longest in history.<\/p>\n<p>But even when the shutdown ended, Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on and extension of the the subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>As the clock struck midnight on January 1 \u2013 the health costs for 24 million people rose dramatically<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s the impact for those in need? And how much politics is involved?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> James Bays<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Allen \u2013 Health Economist and Policy Researcher at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University<\/p>\n<p>Neel Shah \u2013 Physician and Chief Medical Officer of Maven Clinic<\/p>\n<p>Rinah Shah \u2013 Political Strategist and Geopolitical analyst<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 2 Jan 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">2 Jan 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans are facing a huge increase in the amount they have to pay for health insurance. A dispute about government subsides for healthcare was one of the major issues that led to a 43-day shutdown of the US government last year \u2013 the longest in history. But even when the shutdown ended, Republicans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[15141,37,3194,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-40077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-fragile","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-system"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}