About 1 in 10 Americans who were enrolled in an ACA plan last year now have no health coverage, according to surveys by the health care research nonprofit KFF. AdvertisementThe bigger subsidies dramatically expanded Obamacare marketplace enrollment, which went from less than 10 million people in 2021 to around 22 million last year. As the expiration of the expanded subsidies loomed last fall, Democrats refused to vote for government funding legislation unless Republicans agreed to another extension of the subsidies — resulting in a six-week government shutdown. A group of moderate Senate Democrats eventually caved in exchange for the Senate holding a doomed vote to extend the extra subsidies. AdvertisementA handful of moderate and populist Republicans broke with the party, saying it would hurt them politically to let the health insurance subsidies expire.

Source: Huffington Post March 20, 2026 01:04 UTC