Center for American Progress February 2, 2022
The reconciliation package should ensure that millions don’t lose enhanced financial assistance and should expand eligibility for marketplace subsidies.
In the past couple years, federal policymakers have made historic improvements in access to health coverage. With the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)’s expansion of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies for marketplace plans set to expire at the end of this year, however, millions of Americans could face higher costs for coverage starting in 2023. Policymakers in the U.S. Senate must prevent this outcome and act swiftly to extend the marketplace premium tax credits, while making affordable coverage available to the more than 2.2 million uninsured Americans in the Medicaid coverage gap.
ARPA subsidies led to historic marketplace enrollment but expire...
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