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GOP risks losing support over ACA tax credits: poll |
As Congress scrambles to decide whether to address the expiring enhanced premium tax credits, new polling suggests Republicans risk losing voter support if they allow the subsidies to expire at the end of the year. |
A poll commissioned by the right-leaning group Americans for a Balanced Budget and conducted by Trump pollster John McLaughlin of McLaughlin & Associates found that 57 percent of voters in 16 GOP-held battleground districts said they were more likely to choose a congressional candidate who voted to preserve the Affordable Care Act tax credits. The survey found 60 percent of voters support preserving the enhanced tax credits to prevent premiums from doubling rather than letting the healthcare tax credits expire. "President Trump has rightly given the GOP a mandate to focus on affordability and economic prosperity for the American people," Dee Stewart, President of Americans for a Balanced Budget, said in a statement. "We simply cannot deliver on that mandate if millions of working Americans are hammered by a massive health care tax hike that would double their premiums, nor can we hope to retain Republican majorities in Congress in the midterm election next year." The findings are the latest warning right-leaning groups are sending to Republicans in Congress and President Trump about the future of ObamaCare's enhanced subsidies, which will expire at the end of the year without Congress acting. Early polling by the health policy nonprofit KFF found that 77 percent of ACA market enrollees live in states won by Trump in 2024. In July, another Trump pollster, Tony Fabrizio, advised that Republicans could overcome a deficit with voters if they extend the subsidies, but risked handing the majority to Democrats in the midterms if they did not. While some lawmakers are holding out hope for successful bipartisan negotiations, many seem inclined to let the subsidies expire. Trump on Tuesday said he would only support a health care plan that involved "SENDING THE MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE," telling Congress not to "waste your time and energy on anything else." |
Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter, we're Nathaniel Weixel and Joseph Choi — every week we follow the latest moves on how Washington impacts your health. |
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Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, in a new deal formally approved by a federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday. The Sacklers must contribute up to $7 billion over 15 years. Most of the money will go to government entities to fight the opioid crisis, which has been linked to 900,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999. … |
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Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday criticized Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his vaccine policy, which he described as “going backwards.” “Well, the family that I've talked to isn't happy with … this performance, whatever it is, I don't want to get into all the details,” Matthews said in an interview on CNN’s “The Arena with Kasie Hunt,” … |
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Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is asking for more information on Eli Lilly’s recently announced agreement with the Trump administration regarding the sale of its GLP-1 medication. In a letter to Lilly CEO David Ricks, provided first to The Hill, Gallego wrote that “substantial questions remain” pertaining to the deal that the White House struck with Lilly. President Trump announced earlier this month that both … |
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Canada loses measles elimination status after ongoing outbreaks |
Canada is no longer measles-free because of ongoing outbreaks, international health experts said Monday, as childhood vaccination rates fall and the highly contagious virus spreads across North and South America. The loss of the country's measles elimination status comes more than a year after the highly contagious virus started spreading. … |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- Alaska births continue to decline, but some health indicators are positive, state reports say (Alaska Beacon)
- UCare ending operations, moving all remaining health insurance enrollees to Medica (MPR News)
- Maryland likely to see stresses to health system as Trump admin cuts housing funds (WYPR)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- Trump HIV prevention plan shuts out South Africa — the nation most affected (Washington Post)
- How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science (Stat)
- Breast cancer and birth control: A huge new study shows how science can be distorted (KFF Health News)
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