Without the tax credits, people will lose coverage, putting their health and finances at risk, experts say.

Without the tax credits, people will lose coverage, putting their health and finances at risk, experts say.

Most of Donald Trump’s supporters back keeping enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans, the central obstacle in ending the government shutdown, according to a new poll from the nonpartisan health policy research group KFF. It was conducted Sept. 23 through Sept. 29, just days before Congress failed to pass a funding measure to keep the government open.

More than 22 million people receive the subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year unless Congress extends them. Losing the subsidies could mean that average out-of-pocket premium payments could double in 2026, from $888 a year to $1,904, an earlier KFF analysis  found.

Around 4 million people are projected to go without coverage next year because they can no longer afford it, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Extending them would cost the federal government around $350 billion over the next decade.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    9 days ago

    Well, good job, dipshits! You think Taco or the conservatives or the Republicans give a fuck about you?

    You got to own the libs! That should be enough to sustain you, right? You’ll be able to pay your medical bills with liberal tears! Did you get your jollies while you watched children being zip-tied and disappeared in U-Hauls? You probably fell for that Qanon “Save The Children” shit, too, right? You get to watch universities repeal any decent treatment of trans and POC. Same for companies. Oh, and the military - no more of that gay stuff. And women will be put back in their place, and we can have government start indoctrinating people, including children, into xtianity again.

    You’ll cheer as dissident voices, even in the form of mild satire on late night TV, is pulled off the air, so you don’t have to be offended by something you won’t watch anyway. All that will put food on the table, amirite! Buck up, if you can still afford the internet, you can share some dank memes in the brosphere even if you have to declare bankruptcy and eat cat food to get by…