{"id":341568,"date":"2025-12-29T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341568\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:29:09","slug":"patch-the-aca-subsidies-then-fix-the-bigger-health-care-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341568\/","title":{"rendered":"Patch the ACA Subsidies, Then Fix the Bigger Health-Care Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Despite months of warnings, weeks of haggling and a government shutdown orchestrated to prevent it, the Covid-era subsidies that help Americans pay for Obamacare health plans will expire on Dec. 31. As a result, more than 20 million Americans will see higher premiums next month, causing many of the worst affected to drop their insurance altogether. There\u2019s still a chance Congress can prevent this self-inflicted mess \u2014 but neither party has come close to addressing the root of the problem.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Since 2014 the Affordable Care Act has subsidized premiums for \u201clower earners,\u201d meaning those with incomes below 400% of the federal poverty level. During the pandemic, Congress increased the subsidies and raised the income threshold, a provision extended by the Inflation Reduction Act. These higher-income enrollees \u2014 among them, owners and employees of small businesses and the self-employed \u2014 are about to see their premiums rise by thousands of dollars annually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite months of warnings, weeks of haggling and a government shutdown orchestrated to prevent it, the Covid-era subsidies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[5611,4176,80,102,2960,1431,132522,6884,229,306,69049,10975,56,54,55,10976],"class_list":["post-341568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-congress","tag-finance","tag-government","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-inflation","tag-obamacare","tag-opinion","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}