{"id":660996,"date":"2025-12-29T20:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660996\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:38:19","slug":"patch-the-aca-subsidies-then-fix-the-bigger-health-care-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660996\/","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":660997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[8179,474,1234,105,4348,476,34139,391,285,2443,171198,202046,16,15,20574],"class_list":{"0":"post-660996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-inflation","14":"tag-obamacare","15":"tag-opinion","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-u-s-democrats","19":"tag-u-s-republicans","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-view"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115804786312451573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}