On December 31, the enhanced subsidies for Obamacare policies that were enacted in 2021 and extended through 2025 are set to expire. The U.S. Senate held a couple of votes on Thursday but did not renew them. So it may be that on January 1, the program will return to the original Obamacare subsidies.
Democrats are portraying the imminent return of original Obamacare as a Republican effort to destroy healthcare. They have finally admitted that the Affordable Care Act is a dismal failure.
The original program that’s about to return used tax dollars to subsidize health insurance policies for people who earned up to 400% of the federal poverty level, capping their premiums at between 2% and 9.96% of their income. But the money wasn’t sent to the policyholder. It was sent straight to the insur

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