Sebastian König for VoxEvery year, picking a health plan is a frustrating guessing game. Here’s how to navigate your choices — and understand the system that built them. It’s time for one of the most confusing, frustrating rituals of the year: health care open enrollment. Over the coming weeks and months, people across the country will consider questions that we try to avoid the other 11 months of the year:... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxMore than half of seniors will sign up for a private version of Medicare this open enrollment. What happened? If you’re signing up for Medicare benefits this open enrollment, odds are you aren’t actually enrolling in the traditional government program that people may envision. More than half of Medicare beneficiaries are now choosing an alternative version of the program administered by private companies. Medicare, the paragon of... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxOnce a year, the absurdities of our health care system are laid bare for everyone to see. Open enrollment is a headache. Health insurance and FSAs can be a hassle. The American system for providing insurance benefits is as much an accident of history as the result of careful planning, and it is protected as much by inertia and special interests as by any evidence that it... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxChoosing health insurance in the US is notoriously difficult. Let this guide help. It isn’t in your head: Selecting a health insurance plan in the US is notoriously difficult, regardless of whether you’re choosing a plan through your employer or you’re shopping on the health insurance marketplace. From needing to learn a variety of terms — HMO, PPO, deductible, premium, coinsurance — to familiarizing yourself with a... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxHow we pay for going to the dentist is supremely screwed up. The thing about dental insurance is that it isn’t really insurance — it’s more like a half-helpful discount plan with a maximum. And once you reach the maximum, you’re on your own, often to the tune of hundreds and thousands of dollars. As though going to the dentist needed to be less fun. In the... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxThe most befuddling tax break in the US health care system, explained. Filling up a flexible spending account for health care can feel like a perverse game of The Price Is Right: Quick, guess how much money you’re going to spend on doctor’s visits, prescriptions, and unforeseen medical emergencies next year. Guess correctly, and you’ll save a little money. Overestimate, and you could lose it (or find... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxNobody would build a health insurance scheme like America’s on purpose. In the coming weeks, the majority of Americans will engage in a bizarre, mildly terrifying, distinctly American seasonal ritual. I refer, of course, to open enrollment — the time when you sign up for your health insurance plan. If you’re covered by your employer, it’s time for confused emails and phone calls to your human resource... Read more ›
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Donald Tusk, the leader of Civic Platform (PO) opposition alliance, attends an election convention in Katowice, Poland, on October 12, 2023. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe high stakes of Poland’s elections, explained. Editor’s note, October 16, 11:00 am CET: Poland’s opposition appears poised for victory in parliamentary elections, according to early exit polls. If the results hold, this could unseat the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), which, in... Read more ›
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A Palestinian man and his children arrive at the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on October 14, 2023. | Abed Rahim Khatib/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesThe legacy of past conflicts is holding up aid at the Gaza border with Egypt. Under conditions that the United Nations has already labeled a “humanitarian catastrophe,” hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled south in preparation for a potential major... Read more ›
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Israel declared war on Hamas, one day after the Palestinian militant group conducted a brutal attack. Israel has already launched what it describes as one of its largest aerial bombardments ever on the Gaza Strip. | Sameh Rahmi/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesWhat will “full” war between Israel and Hamas mean? And 6 other questions about the conflict. Israel and Hamas are involved in their worst outbreak of violence in decades, one... Read more ›
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Palestinians injured during Israeli raids are treated at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 14, 2023. | Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty ImagesIsrael’s evacuation order is creating chaos in Gaza. A ground invasion will be worse. An airstrike on Friday hit a convoy of Palestinians, killing at least 12, including women and young children, as they tried to flee northern Gaza at the direction... Read more ›
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An abandoned mattress on a sidewalk in Marseille, France, on October 9. | Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesIt’s a bedbug’s world now. We’re just sleeping in it. On a brisk morning last month, the deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, stood in front of a French TV camera with a serious look on his face and said: “No one is safe.” He wasn’t talking about the threat of climate... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for VoxOther people’s money decisions affect your own. Here’s how to talk boundaries. On the Money is a new monthly advice column. If you want advice on spending, saving, or investing — or any of the complicated emotions that may come up as you prepare to make big financial decisions — you can submit your question on this form. Here, we answer two questions asked by Vox readers,... Read more ›
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Palestinians injured during Israeli raids at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, on October 14, 2023, in Gaza City, Gaza. | Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty ImagesIsrael’s evacuation order is creating chaos in Gaza. A ground invasion will be worse. An airstrike on Friday hit a convoy of Palestinians, killing at least 12, including women and young children, as they tried to flee northern Gaza at... Read more ›
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In Tehran, Iran, pro-government demonstrators rally against Israel, on October 13, 2023. | Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ImagesIran likely won’t launch direct attacks against Israel, but the possibility of a regional conflagration is real. Speculation around Iran’s involvement in Hamas’s gruesome attack on Israel has been rampant over the past week — along with questions about whether the Islamic Republic or any of its regional proxies will get... Read more ›
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Israel declared war on Hamas, one day after the Palestinian militant group conducted a brutal attack. Israel has already launched what it describes as one of its largest aerial bombardments ever on the Gaza Strip. | Sameh Rahmi/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesWhat will “full” war between Israel and Hamas mean? And 6 other questions about the conflict. Israel and Hamas are involved in their worst outbreak of violence in decades, one... Read more ›
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An artist draws the Palestinian flag on a wall on the southern Lebanese border with Israel near Fatima’s Gate on December 17, 2017. | Ali Dia/AFP via Getty ImagesProtests in the Middle East show the centrality of Palestine. Demonstrations of solidarity with Palestinians have broken out across the Arab world this week, as Israel reels from Hamas’s massive attack and Palestinians in Gaza come under bombardment. Moroccans, Jordanians, and Egyptians... Read more ›
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Donald Tusk, the leader of Civic Platform (PO) opposition alliance, attends an election convention in Katowice, Poland, on October 12, 2023. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe high stakes of Poland’s elections, explained. WARSAW, Poland — “We have been talking that these are the most important elections since 1989, which was the first partly free elections since the fall of communism,” Jakub Kocjan, a rule of law campaigner for Akcja... Read more ›
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California this week passed two laws that would force big businesses to report their contributions to climate change and the impacts of warming on their bottom lines. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesCalifornia wants to find out. If you order a company to reveal how much it pollutes, would it clean up its act? And if a business has to chalk out all the ways extreme weather and rising... Read more ›
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Candles are lit during a vigil at the Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles following Hamas’s attack on Israel. | Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty ImagesAttitudes toward Israel were already changing. The unfolding violence is making it even more complicated. When the terror attacks unfolded this weekend in Israel, the first instinct of many Jewish Americans was to reach out to family and friends. Israel is a small country — you... Read more ›
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