{"id":395403,"date":"2025-11-21T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395403\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:47:18","slug":"bipartisan-group-of-house-lawmakers-pitch-a-two-year-extension-for-aca-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395403\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan group of House lawmakers pitch a two year extension for ACA subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNDD) \u2014 A group of House members came forward with bipartisan legislation on Friday to <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/nation-world\/health-insurance-expert-warns-of-subsidy-cut-drawbacks-san-antonio-texas-doctors-patients-affordable-care-act-government-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">extend the subsidies<\/a> on the Affordable Care Act for two years.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was brought forward by Democratic Reps. Tom Suozzi (New York), Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey) and GOP Reps. Jeff Hurd (Colorado) and Don Bacon (Nebraska).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see it clearly that we need an interim plan because we don\u2019t want to see premiums skyrocket,\u201d Bacon said, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5617598-bipartisan-bill-would-extend-obamacare-subsidies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to The Hill newspaper<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll probably need a deeper plan for the longer term  but we\u2019re not going to do that before Dec. 31.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gottheimer said that Republicans and Democrats have to come together with a bipartisan solution before the Obamacare <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/revamped-aca-to-empower-small-businesses-with-more-insurance-choices-says-dr-oz-mehmet-oz-trump-aca-subsidies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subsidies expire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to come together, Democrats and Republicans, put aside the partisan BS, and deliver a real solution that will cut health insurance premiums,\u201d Gottheimer said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s this solution or another, failure is not an option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The premiums are expected to increase in 2026 unless there is an extension.<\/p>\n<p>After the government shutdown ended, Senate Majority Leader John Thune promised Democrats to let them vote on a preferred bill to extend the subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Georgia GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene broke away from her party on the issue and <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/marjorie-taylor-greene-breaks-with-republicans-on-obamacare-says-shes-america-only-ukraine-israel-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">called for the subsidies issue to be addressed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!\u201d she wrote in a lengthy X post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNDD) \u2014 A group of House members came forward with bipartisan legislation on Friday to extend the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":395404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-395403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115589653786799205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}