The current shutdown over Obamacare subsidies is less about healthcare than about America’s broken budgeting process. These subsidies were billed as temporary emergency measures.
In the Affordable Care Act, these subsidies helped people earning under 400 percent of the poverty line. Then, under the Biden administration, these income caps were removed.
As Matthew Continetti wrote in his column, emergency subsidies introduced during the pandemic have gradually morphed into a long-term entitlement, with an estimated $350 billion price tag over the next decade.
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