Without the tax credits, people will lose coverage, putting their health and finances at risk, experts say.

Most of Donald Trump’s supporters back keeping enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans, the central obstacle in ending the government shutdown, according to a new poll from the nonpartisan health policy research group KFF. It was conducted Sept. 23 through Sept. 29, just days before Congress failed to pass a funding measure to keep the government open.

More than 22 million people receive the subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year unless Congress extends them. Losing the subsidies could mean that average out-of-pocket premium payments could double in 2026, from $888 a year to $1,904, an earlier KFF analysis  found.

Around 4 million people are projected to go without coverage next year because they can no longer afford it, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Extending them would cost the federal government around $350 billion over the next decade.

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    10 days ago

    Oh, well a majority of Trump supporters explicitly voted to end those subsidies, so maybe at this point they should all just be purged from the voter rolls if they are definitionally too stupid to be trusted with voting.

    Oh well, natural selection plays out either way I guess, sucks that these idiots are collectively going to be responsible for millions of unnecessary deaths, but I guess at least a large chunk of those deaths are themselves…

    … its like with covid and not wearing masks, getting vaxxed.

    Stay as safe as you can and at least a lot of these morons will kill themselves, with extra steps, sorry we can’t have nice things, idiots decided to idiot harder.