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If individual insurance subsidies are allowed to expire at the end of the year, it won’t just harm the millions, including Ohioans, who use it to address conditions like high blood pressure and pneumonia. It will also rip thousands of people out of treatment for opioid-use disorder and increase overdose deaths, the CEO of a treatment company said on Tuesday.

Much of the federal government has been shut down since Oct. 1 as congressional Republicans resist calls to extend subsidies for insurance bought in marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act. The subsidies are set to expire on Dec. 31, while open enrollment for next year begins in two

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