At the end of the year, the generous subsidies for health insurance purchased through Obamacare’s exchanges that were enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act last March are set to expire. People may start receiving notices that their premiums are increasing in October, just a few weeks before this fall’s midterm elections.
That has House Democrats in swing districts worried about their chances on Election Day. In a recent letter, more than two dozen of them begged party leadership to permanently extend the subsidies and avert a return to a status quo in which "high-quality coverage . . . will now be out of reach."
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