Obamacare, the shutdown
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Dems pull out all the stops to keep Obamacare subsidies fight alive after vote to reopen government
Democrats plan long-shot discharge petition for Obamacare subsidies as House GOP Leader Steve Scalise calls the COVID-era credits wasteful.
Republicans say giving health care subsidies as cash to consumers would give Americans more control over their coverage. Critics say it could severely undermine the ACA marketplaces.
Premiums for millions of Americans in red and blue states are expected to more than double on average next year unless Congress finds a solution.
The government shutdown may be over, but Republicans and Democrats are now divided over whether Obamacare subsidies should be subject to abortion funding restrictions if Congress agrees to extend them.
Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., made their core shutdown argument about expiring Obamacare subsidies that they argued, if allowed to sunset at the end of this year, would lead to millions of Americans seeing their healthcare premium costs skyrocket.
The government shutdown has ended, but Senate Democrats didn’t get a key provision they were fighting for: extending the Obamacare tax credits that are set to expire at the end of the year.
No other state has a greater percentage of people — about 4.6 million Floridians or 25% of those under 65 — getting their health care insurance through the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
Healthcare costs could triple for millions of people if subsidies are allowed to lapse at the end of the year.
There are just three weeks when the Senate is in session before mid-December, when Republicans committed to holding a vote on the subsidies.
Since the Affordable Care Act went into effect, premiums have nearly tripled, and deductibles have more than doubled. Here are some charts that illustrate the changes.