Making ‘cuts’ to Federal Government programs WILL have consequences for those who voted for Harris and AND those who ALSO voted for Trump….
And THOSE cuts, would make a LOT of people, who WILL vote again in 2026, VERY ANGRY at those in Congress who cancelled their Health Insurance…..
It IS the reson Obamacare IS still around…..
Oh?
If we don’t call it Obamacare, its nickname, but the Affordabale Care Act, would THAT make the program ok?
“Instead of perpetuating a tax-and-spend agenda, we can and should work together to improve health-care choice, affordability and reliability,” Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who is slated to lead the Senate Finance Committee, said at a September hearing where he expressed his desire not to continue the expanded subsidies.
But eliminating the subsidy increase poses political risks. If subsidies fall to their pre-2021 level, experts say, many new subscribers would choose not to renew their coverage — the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that 3.4 million more people would become uninsured — and many of them live in states that lean heavily Republican. Health policy research organization KFF said that if the subsidy expansion expires, premiums would more than double in 12 heavily Republican states — including Texas, West Virginia and Alaska — while rising less sharply in many blue states….
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This year, the average marketplace customer pays $888 annually in premiums and receives $6,432 in subsidies, which would drop to $5,727 after 2025 under the current law, according to an analysis by KFF.
That lower subsidy would mean an increase of 44 percent in the average customer’s premiums.
With President Joe Biden’s support, Congress first expanded ACA subsides in 2021 and later extended them through 2025. Making them permanent this year would add $335 billion to the federal deficit over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office…..
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Greg Fann, a right-leaning health policy expert, said he would favor ending the expansion of subsidies while boosting coverage in ways he views as more cost-effective, such as making premiums less expensive for younger people. But he notes “momentum” among Republicans for keeping the subsidies at their current levels to avoid a cascade of people losing coverage in 2026.
“I have talked to people that I wouldn’t say are in favor of them, but are also not really interested in taking them away before a midterm election,” Fann said. “I think any Republican change is going to be met with suspicion — the easy thing to do is to keep things as they are.”….
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