Schumer warns millions of starting to get messages in the mail to tell them that health insurance costs are about to pass through the ceiling.

Democrats A threat to vote to close The government at the end of the month if the Republicans did not provide support, which was first placed in 2021 and extended a year later when they took control of Congress and the White House. Tax credits, which are scheduled to expire at the end of the year, go to people with low and medium income who buy health insurance through reasonable prices.

Some Republicans who have opposed the Health Care Law since it was submitted during the era of President Barack Obama are suddenly open to maintaining tax credits. They acknowledge that many of their voters can see a sharp rise in coverage if the tool is allowed to be examined.

However, the two sides are far away. Republicans are divided, with many opponents firmly. The leaders of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives and the Senate were open, but they were inappropriate for this extension, and many of these Republicans who say they support him argue that tax credits should be reformulated – which may open a new health care discussion that may take months to solve it.

Democrats are unlikely to agree to any changes in subsidies, which increases the chances of confrontation and escalating uncertainty for health insurance companies, hospitals, state governments and the people who receive them.

“In just a few weeks, unless Congress will behave, millions of Americans will start getting messages in the mail to tell them that health insurance costs are about to pass through the ceiling – hundreds of dollars, and thousands in some cases,” said the Democratic Leader of the Senate Chook Schumer last week.

Millions of Americans may face higher health insurance rates

Adjust in ACA plans The restrictions of 24 million people have increased significantly due to billions of dollars in subsidies that reduced the costs of many people. Extensive subsidies for some of the low -income registered people allowed to reach health plans without any installments and crowned the amount paid by the highest sponsors for 8.5 % of their income. The eligibility also expanded the owners of the middle class.

With the expiration now, only a few months away, some of these people have already received notifications that their installments – the monthly fees paid for insurance coverage – are preparing to rise next year. Insurance companies sent notifications in almost every state, as they suggested some distinguished increases by up to 50 percent.

Legislators face pressure to dispose of some of the largest industries in the country, including insurance companies covering people in the market and hospital executives who say they will be pressured before before Medicaid discounts in President Donald Trump The “big and beautiful” tax bill.

“There is a widespread awareness that there is a real rise and just around the corner, both the Republicans and Democrats,” said David Merrit, Senior Vice President of Foreign Affairs in Blue Cross Blue Shield. “Certainly, Congress lines an opportunity to get rid of this problem.”

Companies said they will need to raise insurance premiums without subsidies because people who hunt and smaller are more likely to disturb the coverage when it becomes more expensive, leaving insurance companies to cover older patients and disease.

In the state of Iowa last month, the state’s insurance commissioner weighs an increase from 3 % to 37 % against a stream of angry public comments. A woman running a garden center in Cedar Fols, Iowa, said she is considering dropping the health insurance completely.

“I already live as much as I can as much as I can work as much as possible, and I put in many hours as I allow me in my job, and I never missed a day of work,” wrote the woman, Luan, in a general comment posted on the Commissioner’s website.

Tighten the rope on Obama’s spending, Bamakir, who plays on the hill, plays on the hill

In Capitol Hill, the issue became intertwined in a larger battle around government financing as it waved on the horizon at the end of the month. Schumer and the leader of the House of Representatives Hakim Jeffrez Have they said that the Democrats would not vote to keep the government open unless the extension of the tax care credits are part of the deal? Republicans said they want more time to consider subsidies and may expand their scope. They will also have to wait for a signal from Trump, who has not yet weighed.

“We will not support a party party spending law that continues to get rid of health care from the American people,” Jeffrez said last week.

Republican leaders are looking for a possible Stopgap bill that will keep the government open for a few weeks and is unlikely to include the extension. But the leaders of the Republican Party in both the House of Representatives and the Senate are under pressure from some members who worry that excellent increases will be a political responsibility before the midterm elections.

The majority leader of the Senate, John Thun, said that he wanted to see a proposal from Democrats on how to extend the benefits because they are paying the case. “Maybe we can do in the middle as a solution,” he said in an interview with Panch Paul news on Thursday.

However, Thne ruled a quick procedure, even indicated that the excellent notifications would come out soon. He said that a short -term spending to finance the government for several weeks while Congress ends budget bills is unlikely to include the extension of the benefits,

Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike JohnsonHe said R-La.

In recent days, 15 Republicans in the House of Representatives in competitive political areas have made legislation to expand tax credits for one year. Representative Jin Kejanz, R-VA, who led the effort with Representative Tom Sweise, DN.Y. said. “While it was assumed that the distinguished tax credit was temporarily created during the epidemic, we should not let it end without a plan in place.”

Business owners of the middle class and small businesses, such as those who have done the coastal region of Virginia in Kejjan, will be particularly vulnerable to high health insurance if the subsidies are not extended.

Several Senate Republicans said they would prefer to extend. Senator in Missouri Josh Holie said that if Congress does not act, some installments “will rise, not a little. We are looking for huge increases. People will not be able to bear it.”

Senator John Corn in Texas said he believed that Congress should lead to the expansion of support for the highest income of the people they receive. “I think we all know that access to health care is important and we take it seriously,” he said.

The Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Mike Crabo, R-Idaho, who has a specialty on tax credits, said he is working with his colleagues to see if there is a solution. “There are many ideas that are put forward there,” said Crabo. “I am trying to find a solution, I don’t tell you what the solution is.”

Others were firmly against it. “It cost us billions of dollars,” said Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

Senator Tami Baldwin said that open joining begins on November 1 and people will start seeing a “real poster shock”, where the prices of the ACA plan will be published next month.

“Time is important,” Baldwin said.

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The Associated Press Lisa Mascaro’s book in Washington and Hana in Vinhot in De Mine, Iowa, contributed to this report.