Permanent health tax credit extension would insure 3.8 million: CBO
Source: Roll Call
Posted September 18, 2025 at 5:34pm
The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Thursday that permanently extending premium health subsidies would increase the number of insured people 3.8 million by 2035 while also increasing the deficit by $349.8 billion over 10 years.
The analysis was requested by Democrats who are looking to avoid the year-end expiration of expanded subsidies for buying health insurance on government-run exchanges and persuade Republicans to negotiate on an extension. They also requested estimates of the effect of rolling back other changes to the individual market under President Donald Trump: repealing a Trump administration final marketplace rule and repealing portions of the GOP reconciliation law.
Jointly, all three actions would increase the number of insured people by 7 million while increasing the federal deficit by $662 billion over 10 years, CBO said.
The analysis arrives as the House is expected to vote on its stopgap measure Friday. Democrats in both chambers have lamented that it won’t include an extension of the premium subsidies, also described as tax credits, or other health priorities. Some have threatened to vote against it.
Read more: https://rollcall.com/2025/09/18/permanent-health-tax-credit-extension-would-insure-3-8-million-cbo/
Link to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) REPORT (PDF) - https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-09/61734-Health.pdf
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the same prices as they do in, say, Canada? Or India?
Oh, what am I saying. Government Regulation is always evil. Just ask your nearest oligarch, they'll explain.
And not sick people who actually need it. Those people just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
