White House circulates a plan to extend Obamacare subsidies as Trump pledges health care fix

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Scripps News/AP

Posted 9:50 PM, Nov 24, 2025


The White House is circulating a proposal that would extend subsidies to help consumers pay for coverage under the Affordable Care Act for two more years, as millions of Americans face spiking health care costs when the current tax credits are set to expire at the end of the year. The draft plan suggests that President Donald Trump is open to extending a provision of Obamacare as his administration and congressional Republicans search for a broader policy solution to a fight that has long flummoxed the party. The White House stresses that no plan is final until Trump announces it.

The subsidies were at the heart of the Democrats’ demands in the government shutdown fight that ended earlier this month. Most Democratic lawmakers had insisted on a straight extension of the tax credits, which expire at the end of the year as a condition of keeping the government open.

Eligibility for the Obamacare subsidies, which were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic to help people afford health care coverage, would be capped at 700% of the federal poverty level, according to two people with knowledge of the proposal. The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss a White House proposal that is in draft form. The baseline tax credits that were originally part of the Affordable Care Act were capped at 400% of the federal poverty level, but that cut-off was suspended because of the temporary COVID-era credits that allowed middle- and higher-income people to benefit from subsidies too.

The White House would also require those on Obamacare, regardless of the type of coverage, to pay some sort of premium for their Obamacare plans. That would effectively end zero-premium plans for those with lower incomes, addressing a concern from Republicans that the program has enabled fraud. One option is a requirement that everyone pay 2% of their income, or at least $5 per month, for lower-tier plans.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/health-care/white-house-circulates-a-plan-to-extend-obamacare-subsidies-as-trump-pledges-health-care-fix

[Javaman]

1. But the orange asshole will relabel it as trump care.

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they fuck us, then kiss us then screw us, then lie to us.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

4. His/Their solution would probably be to get rid of the automatic deduction from SS payments...

... that pays into the Medicare/Medicaid program, in hopes that a few or more folks would lose their coverage for at least a few months, and "just go somewhere and ide".

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

2. Same old song and dance...

..." ...President Donald Trump is open to extending a provision of Obamacare as his administration and congressional Republicans search for a broader policy solution to a fight that has long flummoxed the party".

In otherwords, they are going to, "leave well enough alone". Meanwhile super top secret planning is going into it's 15th plus year by the GOP/RNC for their own solution.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. "no plan is final until Trump announces it."

reaching for authoritarianism at every turn.

[SSJVegeta]

5. ...

[Ray Bruns]

6. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know. In two weeks.

[llmart]

7. Yes, but...

he has a concept of a plan. Just wait for it.

[underpants]

8. 🌮

[azureblue]

9. a glimmer

of a concept of an idea of a plan. Yeah right Don Pedo. Sure. Real soon now, eh?

[C_U_L8R]

10. Not even a concept of a plan

Count on Trump to be too lazy to even come up with a corrupt scheme.

[thesquanderer]

11. Maybe he's filling his part of a back room deal for having the Dems capitulate on ending the shutdown?

Maybe he told Republicans in Congress something like, "okay, they can have their subsidy extension, but I have to get credit for it."

[JPK]

12. The fact of the matter is...

If everyone recalls, the current plan, the ACA, is essentially The Heritage Foundation's plan. In the committees that were held before the law was passed, the Democrats gave in to most of the republican's demands get their votes so in the end, the ACA is essentially the republican plan. It is a huge give away to the insurance companies. Still, the ACA did not receive one republican vote.

Why do you think rates are going up. It's because the insurance companies where expecting the ACA to go away and they wanted to hedge their bets by increasing every ones costs. The republicans can't come up with a new plan because they got all they wanted. So, the republicans have no where to go now except to do away with the ACA completely and go back to where we were eleven years ago. THAT, will be political suicide. The ACA is going nowhere. It will stay right where it is. When the Dems take back Congress and the Senate then the WH, they will not make the same mistake again. They will pass either universal healthcare or Medicare for all.

[travelingthrulife]

13. Same old shit. Still no plan.

[progree]

14. Part of the playbook is similar -- like in 2017, borrow heavily from the ACA but vastly underfund it

The Republicans, back in 2017, came up with a plan pushed by tRump that came within one vote of passing

The AHCA (American Health Care Act) and the BCRA (Better Care Reconciliation Act), which were remarkably similar to the ACA except vastly underfunded -- such that premiums were expected to be much much higher (and coverage weaker) for most people, leading the CBO to estimate 22 million people would lose insurance as a result. Yet it came just one vote short of passing.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20767877

Since 2017 (8 years ago), nothing. Well except what's in the OP.

I thought he had kinda withdrawn what's in the OP after a lot of GOP pushback? I'm having such a hard time keeping up with TACO.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. "I thought he had kinda withdrawn what's in the OP after a lot of GOP pushback?"

I think they withdrew the "big announcement" of it after the pushback, so as we all say - "maybe in 2 weeks"?

[Bayard]

16. trump thinks this will help rethuglicans in next year's elections

He will claim credit for the ACA, (yes--and probably demand it be rebranded, trumpcare,) and keep pounding on Dems being responsible for the shutdown.