Hours after the federal government closed, Julio Fuentes stood up steps away from the American Capitol to present an urgent message about the Spanish -origin voting bloc that helped the Republican Party to sweep power last year.
He warned that these voices are at risk if Congress did not approve a law to maintain the plans of the care law market at reasonable prices of approximately 4.7 million people living in Florida State registered in coverage.
“Of Spanish -origin’s trade room, the congress to reopen the government to connect a deal to tax credits:” helped the Spanish voters in returning Donald Trump to the White House, “said Fulwitis, CEO of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Florida, who called on Congress to reopen the government to connect a deal on tax credits. “Republican leaders will do properly through their voters to keep coverage at reasonable prices, and they will remember that heading to the middle of the period.”
With less than a month before many Americans choose their health insurance plans for the next year, the Democrats in Congress carry government funding to pressure Republicans in extending billions of dollars from federal tax credits that in recent years largely reduced premiums of installments and contributed to record rates of unbelievable Americans.
Democrats believe that the high risk confrontation is an opportunity to talk about health care at reasonable prices, as millions of Americans-including those who are registered in coverage through a workplace or medical care-are preparing to increase costs next year. The party leaders, in the hope of increasing support from some of the supporters of the working class who have moved away from them, used this moment to remind voters of the recent wounds that the Republicans agreed to some health care programs.
Republicans highlight external confidence that the approach will not find traction, and they remind the public that the Democrats have forced the closure. but New KFF analysis He explains that 80 % of all distinguished tax credits benefited from the registered in the states that Trump won.
The closure coincides with the open registration season, as insurance companies are preparing to send notifications that reveal interest rates next year for about 24 million people registered with the coverage of ACA. The average registrar is expected to pay More than twice If the tax credits are left to end their validity. Insurance companies also said that they will have to raise the price of installments significantly because the healthiest people will penetrate the coverage because they become more expensive, leaving a more ill -American group – and less money to cover them.
“During the next few days, what you will see is that more than 20 million Americans suffer from increased health care premiums, posters, and discounts due to the Republicans’ unwillingness to expand the tax credits of the Care Law at reasonable prices,” said the minority commander in the House of Representatives, Hawkim Jeffrez, said.
Open joining in most states begins on the first of November. Some insurance and exchange companies have been delayed in sending notifications separating installments for the next year, because they are waiting to know what is revealed in Washington. For example, Covered California, the state insurance market, plans to send notifications to more than a million registered later on this year, on October 15.
From her home in Richmond, Virginia, Natalie Tire, 31, is eagerly awaiting her notice. It checks the state’s Marketplace website daily to see if the new prices for its insurance plan have been published.
Tyer depends on the market coverage for more than a year while it works part -time for a small video production company and follows a master’s degree to become a school adviser. Tax credits help cover $ 255 of its monthly premium, which is up to $ 53. Since it is generally healthy, if the credits are over and its installments rise significantly, the coverage may decrease completely.
“I have had to go without health insurance and I have to rely on hope,” Tire said.
Nevertheless, the pressure on Democrats focuses on closing health care, though, it passes against many uncomfortable facts to close the federal government, which will leave millions of federal workers without salaries, hinders some of the functions of public health agencies, and threaten food aid payments for low mothers, among other effects.
Meanwhile, ACA has been a political flash point since 2010, when the Republicans fought the approval of historical health care legislation. Soon a wave of Republican Congress victories followed that battle, which caused the closure of the government in 2013, when the Republican Party tried the program. The party leaders again tried to cancel it in 2017 to follow the Trump campaign promise.
The last clash-more than billions of dollars in the tax credits issued by Democrats during the Covid-19 pandemic to enhance the joining of ACA-has ripen months ago. Democrats, who wrote the original legislation they submit and then extend them, put the improved tax credits that end at the end of this year. Even some Republicans have begun to warn this summer that leaving these tax credits may be harmful, as Republican polls issue Republican Tony Fabrizio and Bob Ward a memorandum warning that extending the credits can make teams in the mid -duration elections next year.
The expansion of the ACA tax credits, which reduced monthly installments to less than $ 0 for the poorest registrar and crowned the amount paid by the average Americans to 8.5 % of their income, will also be a common step.
More than three quarters of Americans want these tax credits to continue, according to L. New survey KFF I was conducted before the closure. About 3 out of 4 people said they would blame Trump or the Republican Party if they are over. KFF is a non -profit health information that includes KFF Health News.
Although they refused to treat tax credits so far this year, Republican Party leaders have indicated that they are ready to expand the tax credits ACA, but with new restrictions on those who qualify them. The Republican Party leadership also said they wanted to divide the details of politics for several weeks, not under the closure pistol.
On October 6, Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson accused the Democrats of manufacturing a political issue to close the government and urge them to pass the continuous decision just to “keep the spotlight.”
“They decided to choose a battle on health care,” Johnson said, adding that he believed that tax credits are “the issue of December 31”, in reference to how long the credits are appointed.
Since the open joining next month, insurance companies will need to start spreading outstanding prices for customers to the window store in the coming days. Democrats have argued that the months of waiting to connect a deal, which may change these prices, may stimulate confusion on a large scale.
While it seems that more Americans are deceiving Trump and the Republicans to close it, only a quarter of people are convinced that the Democrat’s proposal to extend the tax credits ACA deserves to close the government, according to CBS news poll During the weekend.
William Peres, a health policy consultant who served during President George W. Bush, said health care is usually a profitable message to Democrats, who have fought to collect issues that appeal to the working class in recent years.
“It is all about health care. They need to make this everything related to health care,” Pierce said, describing it as a weak place for the Republicans. “They need to continue to talk about it constantly.”
Republicans in the White House and Congress faced with them Doubted allegations in reality Democrats seek to expand free health care for migrants who have no legal status in the United States
In fact, these immigrants are not qualified to register in the market, and Democrats did not suggest opening ACA coverage for them in their suggestion.
Returning to Richmond, where Tayeir is afraid of covering her next year, she disturbed to see the debate focused on immigrants. Some of her classmates and colleagues are also concerned.
“The truth is that what is happening with these tax credits is that ordinary people – people who want to work in the public sector, who want to educate children – we will lose health care as well,” said Tire.
KFF Health News Bernard J. Wolfson contributed to this report.