{"id":19146,"date":"2025-10-22T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=19146"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:43:10","slug":"new-data-completely-destroy-democrats-shutdown-talking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=19146","title":{"rendered":"New Data Completely Destroy Democrats\u2019 Shutdown Talking Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-8 bracket-blue relative\">\n<div class=\"featured-image articleFI relative\" data-fullscreen-image=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"shadow w-full\" title=\"Congressional Democrat Appropriation Leaders Hold Press Conference\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=549,fit=cover,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2226545578-scaled-e1761080929416.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1000px) 65vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=320,height=137,fit=cover,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2226545578-scaled-e1761080929416.jpg 320w,https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=640,height=274,fit=cover,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2226545578-scaled-e1761080929416.jpg 640w,https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=960,height=411,fit=cover,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2226545578-scaled-e1761080929416.jpg 960w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=549,fit=cover,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2226545578-scaled-e1761080929416.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"Congressional Democrat Appropriation Leaders Hold Press Conference\" width=\"1280\" height=\"549\" \/><button class=\"focus:outline-none absolute top-0 right-0 leading-none mt-4 mr-4\" title=\"Toggle fullscreen\" data-fullscreen-image-trigger=\"\"><\/button><\/div>\n<p class=\"text-xs text-grey leading-tight text-right mt-1\">(Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb-4 text-sm news-foundation-id\" src=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/files\/images\/DCNF-large.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Caller News Foundation logo\" width=\"256\" height=\"25\" \/><\/p>\n<ul class=\"social-container list-none flex mb-4 lg:mb-8 pt-8\">\n<li class=\"shadow hover:shadow-lg leading-zero mr-2 rounded-full\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"shadow hover:shadow-lg leading-zero mr-2 rounded-full\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"shadow hover:shadow-lg bg-red leading-none mr-2 rounded-full relative\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"shadow hover:shadow-lg leading-zero mr-2 last:mr-0 rounded-full\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"author-section flex justify-between mb-6 xl:mb-12 font-oswald tracking-2xl-wide font-medium leading-xl-loose text-xs xl:text-lg\">\n<div class=\"uppercase\">Melissa O&#8217;Rourke<span class=\"inline-block font-light xl:text-sm\">Reporter<\/span><\/div>\n<p><time class=\"text-right text-grey xl:text-base bracket-red relative flex-shrink-0\"><span class=\"block\">October 21, 2025<\/span><span class=\"block xl:text-sm\">6:59 PM ET<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"font-section flex items-center justify-end pt-2 mb-2 xl:mb-12\"><span class=\"uppercase text-sm text-black font-oswald font-light mr-1 leading-none tracking-wide font-medium\">Font Size:<\/span><button data-font-increase=\"\" aria-label=\"Increase font size\"><\/button><button disabled=\"disabled\" data-font-decrease=\"\" aria-label=\"Decrease font size\"><\/button><\/div>\n<div id=\"articleContent\" class=\"article-content mb-2 pb-2 tracking-tight\" data-article=\"\">\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>New data challenge Democrats\u2019 central claim in the ongoing government funding standoff.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly three weeks, Democrats have\u00a0refused\u00a0to back any funding bill unless it includes an extension of COVID-era Obamacare\u00a0premium subsidies\u00a0set to expire at the end of 2025. Democrats have warned of catastrophic healthcare cost increases if the subsidies expire, and have\u00a0accused\u00a0Republicans of trying to \u201cgut the healthcare of everyday Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, an analysis by the\u00a0Paragon Health Institute\u00a0published Tuesday shows that the expiration of these subsidies accounts for only 3.3% of projected 2026 premiums.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpiration of the Biden COVID Credits is not the primary driver of skyrocketing ACA [Affordable Care Act] plan premiums and overall unaffordability, according to the insurers themselves,\u201d the institute wrote. \u201cThe real drivers are the same structural flaws that have plagued Obamacare since 2014 and rising health care costs.\u201d\u00a0<strong>(RELATED: \u2018Negotiate With Us Now\u2019: Democrats Demand GOP Bail Them Out Of Schumer-Caused Shutdown)<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1761140504219841586=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The expiring enhanced Covid-era Obamacare subsidies are NOT responsible for premiums increasing.<\/p>\n<p>96.7% of the 2026 premium has nothing to do with the Covid subsidy add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>And even that small premium effect is for a good reason: improper and phantom enrollment would decline.\u00a0https:\/\/t.co\/LFzdvg4EWC<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Blase (@brian_blase)\u00a0October 21, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"outbrainPlaceholder\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"readmore\"><\/div>\n<p>The subsidies, known as premium tax credits, were created under the ACA to help people purchase insurance on public exchanges if they lacked other coverage. Initially, these credits were limited to households earning 100% to 400% of the federal poverty level.<\/p>\n<p>However, former President Joe Biden signed two laws \u2014 the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act \u2014 that removed the upper-income cap and increased the subsidies to cover a higher share of premiums and, in some cases, reduced certain households\u2019 premiums to zero.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, who passed the subsidy expansions without a single Republican vote, originally set them to expire at the end of 2025. They are now linking the expected premium hikes to the lapse of those very subsidies and faulting Republicans for letting them expire on the timeline Democrats established.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my state, a family paying $238 per month for their health insurance right now, thanks to Republicans, they could pay as much as $1,800 per month next year,\u201d Democratic Washington Sen. Patty Murray said during a Democratic leadership press conference shortly before the shutdown began on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader\u00a0Hakeem Jeffries\u00a0claimed Tuesday on\u00a0X\u00a0that Republicans are raising Americans\u2019 healthcare premiums by thousands per year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Paragon, the 2025 benchmark premium for a typical ACA enrollee \u2014 a 50-year-old earning 200% of the federal poverty level \u2014 is $8,326. Premiums are projected to rise 20% in 2026 to $9,991. Of the $1,665 increase, just $333, or 3.3% stems from the expiration of the COVID-era subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining $1,332 of premium growth is due to factors such as higher medical utilization, inflation, healthcare consolidation and rising specialty drug costs, according to Paragon.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the subsidies expire, taxpayers are still expected to cover over 80% of the typical Obamacare enrollee\u2019s premiums,\u00a0Paragon\u00a0noted.<\/p>\n<p>Critics\u00a0of Obamacare have argued that Democrats\u2019 push to extend the subsidy expansion is an implicit admission that the ACA, as originally written, failed to deliver on its promise of making healthcare affordable. Meanwhile, extending the expanded subsidies will cost up to $350 billion over the next decade, according to the\u00a0Congressional Budget Office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images) Melissa O&#8217;RourkeReporter October 21, 20256:59 PM ET Font Size: New data challenge Democrats\u2019 central claim in the ongoing government funding standoff. 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