A promised Senate vote next month on expiring healthcare subsidies coincides with a key deadline for people buying Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.

Democrats plan long-shot discharge petition for Obamacare subsidies as House GOP Leader Steve Scalise calls the COVID-era credits wasteful.

Healthcare costs could triple for millions of people if subsidies are allowed to lapse at the end of the year.

Republicans say giving health care subsidies as cash to consumers would give Americans more control over their coverage. Critics say it could severely undermine the ACA marketplaces.

Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., made their core shutdown argument about expiring Obamacare subsidies that they argued, if allowed to sunset at the end of this year, would lead to millions of Americans seeing their healthcare premium costs skyrocket.

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President Trump suggested support for some kind of health savings account scheme, where instead of subsidizing health insurance plans through Obamacare, the federal government would give people money to go out and buy their own insurance plans on an open market.

Since the Affordable Care Act went into effect, premiums have nearly tripled, and deductibles have more than doubled. Here are some charts that illustrate the changes.