Congress must reject a funding bill that doesn’t include extending the ACA premium tax credits and check Trump’s authoritarian power grabs.
John,
Open enrollment on the ACA Marketplace is here, and many Americans are experiencing sticker shock over skyrocketing premiums due to the loss of the enhanced premium tax credits. Without these subsidies, most people on the health care exchange will see their premiums more than double next year.
This is unsustainable, and the fact that Congress seems set to pass a government funding bill that does not address skyrocketing health costs is unacceptable.
Seven in ten adults who buy health insurance on the ACA Marketplace say that if the cost of their premiums were to double (as forecast!), it would cause a significant strain on their household finances.1 Forty-two percent say they would go without health insurance entirely.2
With congressional Republicans and the administration driving up health costs along with groceries and housing through their massive cuts to basic needs programs, and many families facing the prospect of not being able to put food on the table as the administration uses SNAP participants as political pawns, the time for Congress to stop massive hikes in health costs is now.
