{"id":25277,"date":"2025-12-12T08:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25277"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:05:43","slug":"sticker-shock-obamacare-customers-confront-premium-spikes-as-congress-dithers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25277","title":{"rendered":"Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this time there\u2019s an extra complication. Though it\u2019s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums in recent years.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/obamacare-aca-congress-price-increases-subsidies-open-enrollment\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/obamacare-aca-congress-price-increases-subsidies-open-enrollment\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News) We\u2019ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,200,10],"tags":[97,385,238,816],"class_list":["post-25277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-legislative-update","tag-aca","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-premium-hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25278,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277\/revisions\/25278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}