Today’s notice: What happened after ACA subsidies expired. Jasmine’s first story from China. Grumblings about the cost of the president’s ballroom get louder. Trump sides with the Senate on housing. New Democrats’ new plan. And: The people who didn’t know they were still giving money to Tulsi Gabbard and Kari Lake.
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Exclusive: Massive drop in Affordable Care Act enrollments. Fears that the end of federal subsidies would dramatically impact the number of Americans insured through the HealthCare.gov marketplace appear to have been well founded. NOTUS’ Paige Winfield Cunningham obtained internal documents from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services which found that roughly 21% of customers in the 30 states using the federal marketplace dropped coverage this year.
That’s much higher than the 12% drop-off over the same period last year.
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The politics: Health care costs are a prime motivator for voters who tell pollsters affordability is their top midterm concern, and the coverage declines on Donald Trump’s watch give Democrats who shut down the government to draw attention to the expiring subsidies last year a chance to say I told you so.