Sabrina Siddiqui
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1,224 appearances
19 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 28 Aug
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Thank you for having me.
The Cost of Living Election is part of The Wall Street Journal's What's News.
This episode was produced by Pierre Bien-Aimé.
Michael LaValle mixed it and wrote our music.
Editorial oversight from Joshua Jamerson, Chris Zinsley, and Tali Arbel.
I'm Sabrina Siddiqui, and this has been The Cost of Living Election.
Thanks for listening.
John Chakowsky is at his computer, scrolling through the options for health insurance in Georgia.
Chakowsky is an independent insurance broker, and he's giving us a closer look at what he calls a double whammy.
Premiums for insurance that complies with the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, have gone up.
And federal tax credits that would have helped people pay for them expired on January 1st.
Tchaikovsky saw the effects of this on prices and on the people he helps find insurance.
Some subsidies are still in place, but Congress allowed enhanced Obamacare subsidies doled out during the COVID-19 pandemic to lapse, a fight so bitter it led to a government shutdown over whether or not to extend them.
Providing those subsidies obviously comes at a cost for the U.S.
government.
A Congressional Budget Office analysis from September found that a three-year extension for them would have cost the federal government roughly $90 billion.
But losing those subsidies has been tough for a lot of the people Tchaikovsky works with.
He calls the latest period of health insurance signups the hardest one he's seen in his 17 years on the job.
The health research nonprofit KFF estimates that on average, the expired subsidies mean that annual premium payments for ACA marketplace enrollees will more than double, from an average of $888 in 2025 to roughly $1,900 this year.
Tchaikovsky says that in a few cases, he saw families' premiums triple.
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