{"id":883981,"date":"2026-01-10T06:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/how-fragile-is-the-us-healthcare-system\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:28:44","slug":"how-fragile-is-the-us-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/how-fragile-is-the-us-healthcare-system\/","title":{"rendered":"How fragile is the US healthcare system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\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<\/div>\n<p> Elroy Fetzer <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/inside-story\/2026\/1\/2\/how-fragile-is-the-us-healthcare-system?traffic_source=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/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":883982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40693,82],"tags":[146942,5572],"class_list":{"0":"post-883981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fragile","8":"category-healthcare","9":"tag-fragile","10":"tag-healthcare"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}