{"id":198623,"date":"2025-10-03T03:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198623\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:13:16","slug":"obamacare-premiums-for-2026-left-in-limbo-by-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198623\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Premiums for 2026 Left in Limbo by Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Millions of Americans who buy their own health insurance face higher premiums in 2026. Just how much higher will depend on who blinks first in the government-shutdown fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies put in place by Democrats in 2021 made health insurance basically free for many people during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet that financial cushion is set to end next year, with the tax credits resetting to their original, less-generous levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of Americans who buy their own health insurance face higher premiums in 2026. Just how much higher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[2356,687,1340,9376,6883,2420,97,252,253,9746,112,30036,74955,25107],"class_list":["post-198623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-california","tag-cancer","tag-congress","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-coronavirus","tag-government","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-law","tag-markets","tag-obamacare","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-u-s-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}