Republicans Promised Health Care Negotiations After the Shutdown, but Democrats Are Wary

Florida Health Care Exec to Newsmax: Uninsured Will Strain ERs

People who can't afford healthcare premiums will turn to emergency rooms for care, and that's the "most expensive point of entry" to the system, Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association, told Newsmax on Friday. Appearing on Newsmax's "Wake Up America," Mayhew weighed in on the shutdown showdown over expiring COVID-19-era Obamacare subsidies. Republicans accuse Democrats of holding the government hostage to force an exte…

Meet the newly uninsured

Thousands of Americans are facing an impossible choice: pay unaffordable premiums or risk going uninsured. | Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images Unless Congress acts in the next month, up to four million Americans are expected to become uninsured, because they can no longer afford their health insurance premiums. While Congress has finally reached a deal to end the longest government shutdown on record, during which Democrats pressed Republicans to…

Republicans scramble for health care plan, as Democrats eye midterm battle

By Sarah Ferris, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — Republicans in Washington successfully defused the 43-day government shutdown without surrendering to Democrats’ demands to spend billions more to offset spiking health insurance costs. Now, the GOP is under mounting pressure to figure out its own plan. Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire in just weeks – which would more than double the cost of premiums nationally for tens of millio…

The Return of Health Care Debate: Will Subsidies Survive?

The Return of Health Care Debate: Will Subsidies Survive? In the aftermath of a prolonged government shutdown, Congressional Republicans and Democrats face an imminent challenge: negotiating the extension of COVID-era health care subsidies. This critical debate comes as the subsidies, crucial for millions of Americans, risk expiration by year's end.The cessation of the shutdown was facilitated by a deal between a handful of Democrats and Senate …

Michael Bennet: ‘I wouldn’t hold out hope’ on seeing health care subsidies extended

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet said he doesn’t believe Congress will approve an extension of expiring health care subsidies, even if a promised vote on the issue in the Senate takes place next month.  Bennet, during a call on Tuesday with reporters, lamented Democrats’ failed effort to force congressional Republicans to extend the subsidies as part of a deal to reopen the federal government.  Most Democrats in the Senate had been holding up a governme…

GOP Promised Healthcare Negotiations After the Shutdown, but Dems Are Wary

(MedPage Today) -- Now that the government shutdown is over, House and Senate Republicans say they will negotiate with Democrats on whether to extend COVID-era tax credits that help tens of millions of Americans afford their healthcare premiums...