https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/10\/01\/democrats-shut-down-the-government-to-obscure-obamacares-failures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We’re seeing more evidence for this adage as the government shut downs following Democrats’ refusal to vote for a spending bill that did not include an extension of “temporary” Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, subsidies passed during the pandemic.
\nThose enhanced subsidies were passed as a temporary measure as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act in March 2021, and then extended through the end of 2025 by the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
Making these subsidies permanent would not be cheap. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it would cost $340 billion a year.<\/p>\n
On the flip side, letting the tax credits expire would result in about 1.6 million higher-income earners losing subsidies completely. Millions more would continue receiving a smaller subsidy and see their premiums rise as a result.”<\/p>\n
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