{"id":256449,"date":"2025-12-29T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/256449\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:37:07","slug":"patch-the-aca-subsidies-then-fix-the-bigger-health-care-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/256449\/","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":256450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[6862,18,1729,3428,135,475,474,19,185,17,98101,2336,790,11994,117455,12157,12160],"class_list":{"0":"post-256449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-health-care","14":"tag-healthcare","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-inflation","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-obamacare","19":"tag-opinion","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-regulation","22":"tag-u-s-democrats","23":"tag-u-s-republicans","24":"tag-view"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115803838384194826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}