The Problem with America’s Health-Care Subsidies
Strain thinks the enhanced measures – a temporary solution enacted during the pandemic – should be allowed to expire.
The US federal government shutdown has become a standoff over health care that will likely end with some sort of extension of the temporary health-insurance subsidies adopted during the pandemic.
However, this would not address the larger problem of America’s high health-care costs – to say nothing of its fiscal imbalance.
In Washington, DC, Democratic Senators have delayed reopening the US federal government in an effort to extend health-care subsidies that are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025.
US President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem open to striking a deal with the Democrats on the subsidies – but only after the government shutdown ends.
“I’d like to see a deal done for great health care,” Trump recently said. “I’m a Republican, but I want to see health care, much more so than the Democrats.
Author summary: America's health-care subsidies face uncertainty.
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