Congress reached an agreement to reopen the federal government, but a conflict still unresolved is what to do about subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.

Part of the bargain to pass stopgap funding for the federal government through early next year included the promise of a Senate floor vote in December on legislation to extend the expiring ACA tax credits.

“We will have votes, and we will have broad and big discussion in December,” Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said in a briefing this past week with West Virginia reporters. “We’re hearing from a lot of constituents on this.”

The subsidies expire Dec. 31. The open enrollment period already began Nov. 1.

The average consumer is likely to see out-of-pocket payments more than double, according to a recent analysis from KFF, a he

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