Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes

Congress Left Without a Health Care Deal. What Comes Next?

Congress has left for the year without reaching a health care deal, leaving Affordable Care Act subsidies that have helped lower insurance prices for roughly 22 million Americans to expire on Dec. 31 without taking action to address the surge in costs that is expected to follow. As the end of the subsidies looms, families and individual Americans are bracing for immediate impacts. Monthly payments for millions of ACA marketplace enrollees are se…

Smucker votes for a GOP health care plan that doesn't include extended Obamacare tax credits

After voting earlier in the day against debating a bill to extend Obamacare subsidies, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker voted Wednesday evening in favor of a Republican health care plan that

Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes

The Republican-led House and Senate adjourned Thursday until the new year with no solution on expiring health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, meaning insurance premiums for about 22 million Americans will rise next month.

Sticker shock: Obamacare customers confront premium spikes as congress dithers

By Julie Appleby KFF Health News We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums in recent years. The circumstances have led to deep consumer concerns abou…

Alabama advocates warn of local impacts from ACA expiration

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) -- Affordable Care Act tax credits will expire at the end of the month. Advocates in Alabama say skyrocketing insurance premiums are imminent for people who rely on the ACA for coverage. However, other leaders say those subsidies need reform. Alabama Arise said some 500,000 Alabamians get their coverage through the health insurance [...]

State Exchange Directors Seeing Consumers’ Fears — In Real Time — About Obamacare Premium Hikes

I’ve been checking on the progress of the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment season, which is happening as Congress continues to debate whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums.  The story drew responses from readers facing large cost increases if these enhanced subsidies expire. They wrote about trying to find ways to squeeze hundreds of dollars a month out of family budgets,…