Negotiations seeking to strike a compromise in the elimination of enhanced subsidies for lower-income purchasers of health plans sold on Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges appear to have died a quiet death.
Talks between Democratic and Republican negotiators focused on a one- or two-year extension of those subsidies, but once the subsidies ended at the close of 2025 and then Congress enacted an FY 2026 funding bill for the Department of Health and Human Services, those talks appeared to collapse.
Learn more about the issues that negotiators stumbled over and how those talks faltered and ultimately failed from the Wall Street Journal article “Negotiators Say Talks to Restore ACA Subsidies Likely Dead” and The Hill report “Senate talks to revive ACA tax credits appear to be fizzling out.”