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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.
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.
Healthcare has remained the line in the sand for Democrats and Republicans as the government shutdown continues.
House Democratic leaders on Tuesday will propose a three-year extension of the soon-to-expire ObamaCare subsidies at the center of the shutdown fight. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
Healthcare costs could triple for millions of people if subsidies are allowed to lapse at the end of the year.
President Trump suggested support for some kind of health savings account scheme, where instead of subsidizing health insurance plans through Obamacare, the federal government would give people money to go out and buy their own insurance plans on an open market.
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.