Selina Simmons-Duffin

So many people are looking at way higher premium costs.

24 million people enrolled in Obamacare this year, mostly small business owners and workers, farmers, ranchers.

Nearly all of them got enhanced subsidies to help with monthly premium costs.

Now those enhanced subsidies are expiring and costs are going up dramatically.

Ellen Allen's premium costs are quadrupling.

She's 64, lives in West Virginia, and has pre-existing conditions.

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Senate Democrats' bill would put those enhanced subsidies back for three years.

The Republican bill would put money in health savings accounts, but would not bring down the higher premium costs.

Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.

24 million people enrolled in Obamacare this year, mostly small business owners and workers, farmers, ranchers.

Nearly all of them got enhanced subsidies to help with monthly premium costs.

Now those enhanced subsidies are expiring and costs are going up dramatically.

Ellen Allen's premium costs are quadrupling.

She's 64, lives in West Virginia, and has pre-existing conditions.

Senate Democrats' bill would put those enhanced subsidies back for three years.

The Republican bill would put money in health savings accounts but would not bring down the higher premium costs.

Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.

The so-called enhanced subsidies first passed in 2021 are popular, but they will go away at the end of December without congressional action.

The new survey by KFF, a nonpartisan health research organization, finds that more than eight in 10 marketplace enrollees say lawmakers should extend the enhanced tax credits.