NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Taxi driver Cephas Previlus stood outside a Canal Street hotel awaiting passengers. He gets his health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace and worries about what will happen to his premiums amid the fight between Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

“I don’t want to lose my coverage, so I want to keep it every year, so it’s better if they keep it like the way it is,” Previlus said.

A thousand miles away in Washington, Democrats and Republicans are at odds over the future of COVID-era enhanced subsidies for ACA marketplace coverage, which benefited millions of Americans.

Democrats are demanding that the tax credits — set to expire at the end of the year — be extended. Republicans say the federal government should be funded first, and only th

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