Poll Results and Comments : ACA Subsidy

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Anna Eisenberg
December 14, 2025

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How do you feel about ACA subsidies expiring?


  • 71% Negative
  • 21% Positive
  • 7% Other

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hoke...Enhanced is the key word. Put in for covid and to be temporary when enacted. 2 trillion annual deficits not a good thing, time to chip away at reducing that number.
walk...Politics at its worse. Healthcare period is a problem
aunt...It irritates me that the GOP will continue tax cuts for the most wealthy Americans but state these subsides are too costly >:(
blik...I'm suspicious of exactly who is threatened by this expiration of Democrat-pushed taxpayer money going to pay persons' personal policies from the 'AFFORDABLE CARE ACT' SOLD TO THEM BY THE colluding insurance companies operating on the government "exchange". Maybe they need to go shopping. That is after they show me where in the US Constitution that I am obligated to surrender tax $$$ to give it to them.
dmis...They were intended to expire
jvkm...Trump and the republicans have absolutely broken the healthcare’s already very fragile system. Just wait till people choose not to have insurance. The medical industry and our country will go down like a house of cards. Trump has lied since 2016 saying he has a better health plan. He has not shown one choice of a better health plan. Trump’s ate a liar.!!!!
joea...Stupid politicians. Care more about their agenda than the people they represent. Maybe we need new people in that can work together to help everyone.
jose...Giving each person $1500 is the same as bailing out the farmers. A bad idea for both. The GOP is on the wrong side of this issue. Maybe we should take away healthcare from congress and give the $1500!
cynt...Extend them until you have something to replace them.
jrv1...The goal should not be sustaining a hand out program, but to help people earn sufficient income to cover insurance. Currently those who have worked hard to earn income have to cover those who don’t. Too many won’t admit the ACA isn’t working
usct...These go to help the least of these among us. Why do wealthy people resent and resist helping those who work hard, but do not make as much? Or is this a part of necropolitics of the Republicans?
atli...Neither ACA nor any other similar Republican plan is as desirable as a public single payer plan with no private insurance participation.
rita...This has been going on for a decade. Why do Republikkkans refuse to allow their constituents to have health care?
star...The inability of Dems and GOP to cooperate stems from the over emotional stubbornness coming from the far left and far right is responsible for our current inability to make decisions. These two groups remind me of two stuborn and selfish 4 year old fighting. When will the rest of us stop listening to these two brats and cooperate with each other to make some decisions?!
gmar...when they designed the ACA the Democrats should have put in an exit plan for the expiration date unfortunately, now people suffer for that total incompetency
milt...So this is what it means to make America great! The richest nation of the world does not provide healthcare for the poor and middle class! And Christian nationalist want to declare our nation Christian! Don’t demean the one who gave the world teachings of lifting up the poor. We are the worst of paganism.
tubi...need a new plan that doesnt continue the profiteering from a needed industry.
vick...With health insurance premiums raising the way they are there will be negative consequences all across this country in every state. I just don’t see how this is not going to have serious implications in the midterms, so I’m not sure why all these Republicans are putting their reelections at risk. Even the medicare premiums are increasing so much that my 2.8% increase in SS still leaves me with a $200 decrease a month after experiencing $200 cut last year as well. So in 2 years my monthly SS check has dropped by $400.
mput...Waste of money on a failed program. There are better solutions that do not invole enriching insurance companies.
tomp...The current program is flawed. I know of people with $1,000,000 homes who were getting subisdies to by Health insurance and have heard of some family businness people getting a subsidy. My premium for health insurance will go up 17% next year and that is a medigap policy. my Medicare pemium goes up 7.4%. My net increase in Social security is $ 50 a month. It certainly does not cover more than half a bag of groceries!
bria...These are in ADDITION to existing subsidies.Obocare is the worst thing to happen to healthcare. It is NOT insurance. They may get it on our dime, but it worthless. Insurance companies gain and that's it. Put poor people on medicaid and the rest should get on an open market. Make the companies want to provide something affordable and usable.
bjef...Giving people with no money, income a few tax deferred dollars in an HSA account is a joke. If you're not paying taxes, tax deferred has no benefit and, if they have no food, they will spend the money on food. Of course, if they need surgery or something important, that will pay for, perhaps, a minute of OR time. they need the major coverage as well.
bria...This will prove to be a disaster for the politicians who fail to realize the economic impact this will have on the millions of their constituents--starting at the voting booth.
phel...Program is rampant in insurance company fraud. ACA should only cover americans who are legal citizens of the US and no exceptions!! Any health care provided to a non citizen should be subjected to their country paying the bill and that country can deal with repayment from their citizen.
wleg...Affordable healthcare should be a right in this country. In the wealthiest country in the world, every one should have access to affordable healthcare.
trag...Although it has its flaws the ACA is beneficial to those who are eligible to use it. People ask how it can be affordable if it has to be subsidized and I think the response is that the subsidies are what makes it affordable
varl...I’m hearing that the result of ACA is insurance companies getting richer and richer. I’d like fair profits and prices and no fraud. Wish we had a political system that could accomplish that.
benn...The proactive lack of support from the trump led white house is profoundly destructive
hcur...Why are we subsidizing the insurance industry which is recording record profits......
spr....I don’t think the broader public understands that this is only the subsidy that was increased during COVID. The original architect of the ACA plan remains. Given the economic reasoning during COVID time, it made sense to help people due to job loss, etc. The COVID subsidies were promoted as temporary….that doesn’t imply indefinite. I don’t see this as a takeaway…the government is acting as stated. What needs debate is how to overhaul ACA to improve America wellbeing.
chri...Why should taxpayers foot the bill that gives private insurance companies a blank check.
jeff...Continuing health care is a critical issue and need for many Americans
miss...I do not need to be subsidizing this idiotic system of health insurance. Democrats made the problem, lied about it constantly, continued to lie about the program, created the sunset provisions for the subsidies, and now want to blame everyone else for their arrogance and maliciousness when Obamacare crashes. People need to see the real effect of casting their votes for an insane medical health plan.
tere...America First means taking care of each other - ACA was a hand-up not a hand-out. Extend ACA and then amend/repair and better the program. The daily drama, apparently to fund-raise, is depressing and exhausting but ultimately unproductive. We need less posturing and more productivity from our elected representatives.
thep...Without subsidies, it’s the most needy and the poor who are most vulnerable.
moti...I’m a single mom hairstylist with a child in college. I simply cannot afford to continue paying for health insurance at these current rates
kari...Increased subsidies were to get people through COVID and the job and income loss that it created. Covid is over.
kare...Anytime the government gets involved in ‘lowering costs’ the expense exponentially grows. College education and health insurance are two examples. The insurance industry needs an overhaul. since Obamacare, the insurance premiums have quadrupled along with deductibles with insurance hardly covering anything before deductible. As a self employed family this is an exorbitant monthly expense - but the solution is not to throw taxpayers money at these costs/insurance companies to ‘lower them’ it’s to solve the medical billing/insurance problem in this country. Catastrophic plans should be available and with that, we’d be better off self funding my medical expenses vs monthly insurance fees.
lkzo...Completely irresponsible! This is something that should have discussed and resolved in February, at least giving people 10-11 months to save or find another way to have coverage
arin...The democrats ran with the ACA being affordable when they implemented it. The subsidies cost tax payers in the millions to fund. Why should we be funding subsidies for those to afford healthcare. The ACA is unaffordable because it doesn’t allow people to buy from a competitive marketplace. Where you can shop from different insurance providers vs just accepting what the ACA offers. Most of those plans vary different in every state. They need to reduce the threshold to what it was prior to Covid. The subsidies should have never been extended or offered. Healthcare prior to ACA was affordable and democrats made it unaffordable. Trust me, there are more affordable options out there than the ACA plan. ACA has caused deductibles to increase. Get Aflac or join a health share program. Before I lost my insurance to the ACA my deductible was $1500. When I reached it my plan paid 100%, that no longer exist under the ACA. Deductible are now $4k+ and limits who you can see and what doctors accept ACA plans. The ACA is a socialist healthcare program. ACA was developed for those who couldn’t afford healthcare due to a pre existing conditions . It was designed to force people from other healthcare providers onto ACA, so those with pre existing conditions could afford the care. ACA should be abolished!
nanc...The Republicans are digging their own graves with this steadfast adversity to the ACA. The cost of these subsidies would be $350 billion over 10 years, which isn’t chump change. However, compared to the cost of reduced taxes they voted for in the Big Beautiful Bill, 4 TRILLION over 10 years, which mainly benefits billionaires and corporations, it’s nothing. Add to that the pain and suffering caused by no health insurance and closing of rural hospitals and the picture looks bleak for these idiots in charge. They will be blamed.
seni...This helps struggling families afford an outrageous premium associated with the MarketPlace.
mart...The fact that the wealthiest country in history will not extend subsidies for this existing program is all you need to know about the priorities of those in majority power.
rand...Time for the U.S. to join the rest of the civilized world with a single payer system
ocds...The public will end up paying for this one way or the other. It's just a matter of whether more folks go bankrupt from medical difficulties....
lora...these subsidies should stop immediately. If ACA needs subsidies to be affordable then by definition ACA is not affordable. The government should stop all subsidies and stop providing free medical to illegal immigrants, welfare recipients, homeless people and people between 18-64 who refuse to work. Then Healthcare will become affordable for working class Americans.
mdul...Given that Democrats have won every election this year but one, and gotten voter agreement for every ballot question they urged voters to support, Republicans should have seen by now that their focus on rewarding the rich by taking money from the vast majority of the populace is insufficiently popular to win elections. However, Republicans under Trump seem to believe that their cultish base will accept anything Republican leadership tells them to swallow. Note, though, that more than 75% of ACA marketplace enrollees live in states won by Trump in 2024. Democrats are clearly trying to find ways to make healthcare insurance at least somewhat affordable and Republican efforts to move that money to the richest Americans will not play well in the coming elections either.
bria...Obamacare is a train wreck
sy_o...Obama Care was known to be expensive when the Govt stopped subsidizing it In order to correct our broken system, We should let the American taxpayer know we are working with the Pharmacies as well as suppliers to reduce their costs to consumer all medication prices should be listed at all pharmacies to see where the best value is for the consumer and so should our Doctors and Hospitals work together to give better prices with their procedural list
donr...We elected representatives to solve problems for their constituents!! Unacceptable that 24 million Americans will be without healthcare in a couple of weeks! Both sides of the aisle should be working non stop to to solve this problem.
widm...This Republican Administration does not seem to care about the American public. Since before 2016, they have worked to eliminate the ACA. Ten-years!! They have presented NO alternative plans! Nothing better! In those ten years, Insurance companies have gained record profits, while Americans have gone bankrupt because of rising healthcare costs. Disgusting! As long as Congress gets free healthcare, they couldn't care less about their constituents.
dena...There seems to be no compromise or solution in sight with the very fragmented and scared Republicans, and mostly the same on the democrat side of the system.
ctmc...I believe the richest nation in the world should be able to offer healthcare coverage for those who cannot afford it.
lkdn...The subsidies were supposed to be temporary during COVID when people weren't working. During that time and up to the present, the people who were getting the subsidies should have saved, obtained better jobs or sought out better insurance. Instead, people who had other choices jumped on the ACA bandwagon saving money on insurance but using those savings for other purchases, some necessary and some discretionary. Helping the poor, disabled and overworked is one thing but subsidizing upper middle class people is wasteful.
cger...Obama care was a disaster from the "get go". Most did not even know what was in the bill when they voted for it. It is fraught with corruption, and bloat and inefficiencies that were covered up by the subsequent subsidies that are now expiring exposing the mess it has been since enacted. Obama lied to the American public.
rgra...wERE IN PLACE FOR COVID EMERGENCY NOT FOREVER - CAUSE OTHER'S PREMIUMS TO INCREASE
jeff...I believe there is a better alternative, but now is not the time to explore options.
rcha...What was it Christ said ; I vomit you out of my mouth? This is how I feel about the Republicans that claim to be Christians. How do you face your own children and families by supporting Trumpism! What is it your Bible says about worshiping false gods!
ron....This administration is the worse the USA has ever had. This administration is destroying everything we as Americans hold dear.
earl...Unbelievable that elected representatives would see their constituents with Affordable Care in this space and time, as well being only civilized, western country without "universal" health care. There had been plenty of time to tweak this Act, making it better! Disgusting...
vtgr...We can afford $40 billion to Argentina, nut we can't extend healthcare to American citizens? Incomprehensible.
spro...Obama Care has caused my health insurance to more than double over the years. I am self employed and we are the ones paying for this. So lefty’s ask yourself, how you could manage $2400/month for a family if 3? I hope the whole program gets axed and screw your subsidies. Welcome to my world
shar...We need a real fix to our broken healthcare system, not more subsidies that allow insurance companies to get rich on the backs of hard working Americans
susa...I don't have healthcare I haven't had it for the last 6 years but I've been lucky and haven't been sick. I can't imagine having kids and a family who need healthcare because no one can afford it it's absolutely ridiculous. And the people fighting over it in Congress don't have to use it and have the money to pay for their health care. Maybe if we take their health care away and they have to pay the outrageous prices they would be a little more motivated.
tadd...The subsidies going straight to insurance companies is the problem they should expire and we figure out how to fix the insurance company extorting billions
husk...Republicans have been trying since the law was enacted to get rid of it. Looks like they finally have succeeded.
scep...I hear that premiums will "double" but ours will be five times as much if no subsidy.
perm...Government subsidizing of healthcare premiums is not a long-term solution for the unchecked rising cost of health care. Medicare is the health care attached to Social Security and is not the same as private insurance. It IS NOT an entitlement. Medicaid needs to be available, but only to those in need and not to non-citizens. No healthcare subsidies should be used by non-citizens of the United States. Reform of the healthcare system should include complete transparency in the costs of services.
rise...There needs to be another plan if they're letting ACA expire. Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and many are unemployed, plus the cost of living has gone way up. This is not sustainable for the American people.
swjo...Dems got this passed by putting in expiration, assuming they would be in power forever. They know it has not been good for the US and the Republican bill would reduce overall costs. It would also expose their failure to control government spending while just trying to buy votes/
rell...Extending subsidies delays a needed fundamental overhaul of The ACA.
rfty...There is no excuse for allowing this to happen. Anyone who votes against it needs to be voted out at the next election.
moni...I believe if these Senators and Congress people had to buy their own insurance or apply for insurance subsidies through the ACA they might have a better I see standing of what the majority of their constituents have to go through each year and how untenable these increases are going to be for people on the exchange. I have had several conversations with people in their 40s who are self employed, work 2 jobs and when they see the increase in monthly premiums, they are often making a choice to not have insurance. This is going to cost our country more in the long run. Quit spending billions on ICE and take care of all Americans healthcare.
doct...On the positive side, hurting Americans in a significant economic way that people painfully see every month is the best way to get rid of as many Republicans as quickly as possible. Getting rid of Republicans is very good indeed. I would suggest: all of them.
jmla...Denying affordable access to healthcare for the very citizens you are elected to represent is insidious and pure evil. It has nothing to do with responsible governance. Republicans just want people to die so they cannot vote against them and remove them from power. I have never witnessed such HATEFUL politics! Republicans OWN the HATE in this country. FULL STOP!
tdhu...Something needs to be done about the cost of healthcare in our country. ACA subsidies are not the best long-term solution.
klod...Dems will ensure nothing happens to try to gain political advantage
mtt_...The subsidies were meant to be a short term process during Covid
cemc...These "subsidies" are a total joke and a ploy by insurance companies to collect a lot more money for their mostly unusable policies. Does anyone realize that with subsidies came 100% higher premiums? Immediately. It is robbery by the health insurance industry. Hospitals are not getting this money, insurance companies are.
bhad...Republicans are shorsighted and greedy.
ceal...They were supposed to be temporary and don’t we have an enormous budget deficit?
elli...a year of extended benefits cost less than the 40 billion trump gave to Argentina and a lot less than the 4 trillion dollar tax break for corporations and the upper 10%. America first my ass
reka...The ACA program is uneconomical, requires massive subsidies, inordinately benefits insurance companies, and is unused by nearly half of subscribers. However, something needs to replace it for people with low incomes. Meanwhile illegal immigrants get housing, food, healthcare, and other benefits that should have been going to actual citizens of this country who need help.
mich...Disappointed in our government’s inability to work together.
robb...The subsidies were a big mistake of the Obama Admin. The old "We have to pass the Bill before we know what's IN the Bill" was the most idiotic political move perhaps, ever. The "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" lie, was the most ignorant of any President's statement in history. He didn't even know the Bill or what was in it.
pbs7...We must achieve efficiency in the medical industry and eliminate fraud!!
mcmi...We lose another safety net for the folks not making serious money
bria...Total revision of ACA is required. Costs are unsustainable without change.
chri...ACA was a good attempt but a more thoughtful plan is needed with bipartisan support
rtet...I am one of the 24 million Americans whose health insurance premiums will double. People working for corporate America and governments have health insurance subsidized by their employers. The Trump regime has given health subsidies paid by taxpayers (including myself) to pay for the trillion dollar tax cuts for billionaires. "The acquiescence of the powerful and the cowardice of the fortunate" (Bill Kristol) are destroying the middle class.
pete...It will inevitably make it impossible for some people to afford healthcare insurance and that is tragic for the families involved and bad for the entire country.