{"id":345115,"date":"2025-12-12T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345115\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:08:10","slug":"ohio-republicans-duck-questions-on-health-insurance-bills-spiking-for-500000-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345115\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Republicans duck questions on health insurance bills spiking for 500,000+ residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time is running out for 583,000 Ohioans whose health insurance premiums will spike when Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at month\u2019s end, and the Today in Ohio <\/a>podcast panel predicted severe political ramifications for lawmakers who sit idle.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, they\u2019re committing suicide here politically because all these people are about to see their bills skyrocket,\u201d warned Chris Quinn. \u201cThey\u2019ll either be paying a whole lot of money that they don\u2019t have to stay insured, or they won\u2019t have insurance, they\u2019ll get sicker. And by next November, they\u2019re going to be hot about the failure of their government to help them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The podcast detailed how Ohio\u2019s congressional delegation is split along party lines on extending the subsidies established in 2021<\/a>. Every Ohio Democrat in Congress supports permanent extension, with Rep. Shontel Brown warning that her \u201cconstituents can\u2019t afford these Republican cuts.\u201d <\/p>\n

But most Republican representatives declined to comment or didn\u2019t respond to inquiries about their positions. Those who did speak up, like Jim Jordan, argued that subsidies just increase prices but they had no concrete alternatives. <\/p>\n

Ohio Senate candidates Bernie Moreno and John Husted have put forward plans to continue the subsidy, but on Thursday, the Senate rejected all proposed solutions. <\/p>\n

Quinn expressed frustration with Republicans\u2019 lack of constructive proposals: \u201cIf you want to complain about Obamacare, you\u2019ve got to put up something different. And they don\u2019t. They just complain about Obamacare. And there are people who have health insurance because of Obamacare.\u201d<\/p>\n

The podcast panel predicted serious political consequences for inaction, with the midterm elections less than a year away. Quinn said that affected voters would remember who let their healthcare costs skyrocket: \u201cThis will cost them in the midterms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garvin suggested Republicans are strategically positioning themselves by criticizing the Affordable Care Act\u2019s structure: \u201cI think what\u2019s happening, too, is they\u2019re getting in their shots at Obamacare. They\u2019re trying to change the narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the hundreds of thousands of Ohioans who depend on the subsidies, the political posturing offers little comfort as they face potentially unaffordable healthcare costs in the new year.<\/p>\n

Listen to the discussion here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to full \u201cToday in Ohio\u201d episodes<\/a> where Chris Quinn hosts our daily half-hour news podcast, with Editorial Board member Lisa Garvin, Impact Editor Leila Atassi and Content Director Laura Johnston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time is running out for 583,000 Ohioans whose health insurance premiums will spike when Affordable Care Act subsidies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-345115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345115","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=345115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}