US EditionWhat Are Enhanced Premium Tax Credits? The Healthcare Concern at the Center of the Government Shutdown.
Nearly 90,000 Minnesotans face higher premiums as enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits expire, amid ongoing government shutdown and political deadlock in Congress.
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MNsure warns premiums could rise for 90,000 Minnesotans
ST. PAUL — The ongoing government shutdown could soon make health insurance more expensive for tens of thousands of Minnesotans. At a legislative hearing at the Capitol on Wednesday, Oct. 15, MNsure CEO Libby Caulum warned lawmakers that federal enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year. She said that change, along with other new federal rules, will drive up costs and limit access to coverage. Caulum estimated that …
Letter to the editor: Shutdown politics
The KFF, which researches health care, asked in a poll: Should Congress extend the enhanced tax credits? You may be interested to know that 59% of Republicans agreed. Of those Republicans, 57% of MAGA supporters agreed and 70% of the…
Day 15: Faces of the GOP Health Care Shutdown — Protect Our Care
Republicans have shut down the government because they want to keep destroying our health care. Republicans don’t care that people are already struggling to get by and forced to choose between paying for life-saving medications and putting food on the table. Instead, the GOP is gutting tax credits for millions of hardworking families, ripping away critical funding from rural hospitals, and throwing the entire health care system into chaos just t…
The US government shutdown began on October 1st and has lasted nearly two weeks. Republicans, who control both houses of Congress, have proposed a short-term funding plan to keep the government running until November, while Democrats have demanded an extension of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, subsidies, which are set to expire in November. The ACA has become the core issue of the bipartisan stalemate. With the ACA's…
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