Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Poll: Nearly 80% Want Congress to Extend ACA Tax Credits

According to new polling data, nearly 80 percent of Americans support extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of this year -- and are at the center of a funding dispute that led to a shutdown of the federal government this week.

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Democrats' funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplace for legal immigrants who will lose access once certain provisions of the Republicans' tax and spending law take effect. kffhealthnews.org/news/article ...

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... The poll, conducted by KFF and released Friday, found that 78 percent of Americans want the tax credits extended, including 92 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of Republicans -- and even a majority (57 percent) of Republicans who identify as Donald Trump-aligned MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters.

A separate analysis published by KFF earlier this week found that if the credits are not extended, monthly premiums for ACA Marketplace plans would more than double on average. Specifically, the current average premium of $888 would jump to $1,904 in 2026, a 114 percent increase. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-04 06:35 PM

Details of the poll results: www.kff.org

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-04 06:40 PM

What percent wants an all new congress?

#3 | Posted by Brennnn at 2025-10-06 10:42 AM

"Nearly 80 percent of Americans" can go ---- themselves because we are not a democracy.

Signed,
Republicans

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-06 11:18 AM


"Nearly 80 percent of Americans" can go ---- themselves because we are not a democracy.
#4 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
-Benjamin Franklin

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
-Alexis de Tocqueville

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-06 09:30 PM

From the poll:

Percent who say that if Congress let the enhanced tax credits expire, they would be very or somewhat concerned to hear each of the following:

1. Health insurance would be unaffordable for many people who buy their own coverage

2. About 4 million people would lose their health insurance coverage

3. Millions of people who work at small businesses or who are self-employed would be directly impacted as many of them rely on the ACA marketplace

MAGA scores 72-78% on all three, while Dems are at 95% on all three.

An overwhelming bipartisan majority wants the tax credits.
Republicans still won't allow it.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 10:49 PM


Candidate Trump on healthcare:

May 21, 2015
I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

Sept 25, 2015
Everybody's got to be covered.

Feb 17, 2016
We're going to have great plans. They're going to be much less expensive and they're going to be much better.

Oct 25, 2016
You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it is going to be so easy.

Nov 13, 2016
It will be better healthcare, much better for less money. Not a bad combination.

"I'm not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid."
-- Trump to the Daily Signal in May 2015

"We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in February 2016

Pres-elect Trump on healthcare:

"We're going to have insurance for everybody ... There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us."
-- Pres-elect Trump to the Washington Post in January 2017

Pres Trump on healthcare:

"Our healthcare plan will lower premiums & deductibles -- and be great healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in May 2017

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 11:33 PM

Trump's Backing a Healthcare Plan That Breaks His Promises (2017)
www.nbcnews.com

... President Donald Trump rode to the White House making big promises on health care -- pledges that he is now in serious danger of breaking. Let's look at how the president's words on the campaign trail stack up against what we know today.

In addition to Trump's comments on the stump, his administration has spent weeks raising expectations on its Obamacare replacement. Among the claims: The Republican plan would cover more people, reduce their premiums and costs, avoid cutting Medicaid, and leave no one worse off than under the former president's signature achievement.

So now that the House GOP's American Health Care Act (AHCA) is here, how do these pledges look?

Not good, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released on Monday. The report found the House plan -- which the Trump administration has thrown its support behind -- would cause millions to lose insurance and raise costs for vulnerable populations. ...



#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 11:41 PM

Leon Russell - Tight Rope (1972)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
I'm up on a tight-wire
One side's ice and one is fire
It's a circus game with you and me
I'm up on a tight rope
One side's hate and one is hope
But the top hat on my head is all you see
...

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 11:55 PM

@#9 ...One side's hate and one is hope ...

Yeah.


#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 11:57 PM

80%?

So what?

- Sincerely the GOP

#11 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-08 07:24 AM

So that means if they don't, 80% will want the ACA repealed because it will be exposed as being awful

#12 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-10-09 05:00 AM

Those of us that don't get a subsidy know how bad the ACA is. Almost 30,000 a year and then a high deductible, co-pay and maximum out of pocket. If you are poor you may get the insurance for free, but you still avoid using it because of the deductible and co-pay. Health care cost too much. "Free insurance" only transfers that cost to Uncle Sugar.

#13 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-10-09 08:44 AM

Recent polling shows that about 78% of the American public supports extending ACA subsidies, with high support across party lines"even 59% of Republicans and 82% of independents agree with this position. Very few issues see similarly broad support in U.S. public opinion surveys. Other policies that sometimes approach this level include protections for people with pre-existing health conditions (which consistently poll above 80%) and maintaining Social Security and Medicare funding, both of which routinely receive 80%+ support in national surveys. Very few new policy initiatives, particularly those that involve significant government spending, reach such consensus across political affiliations.[1][5][6]

The ACA subsidy extension stands out as nearly unique in garnering such strong, bipartisan backing among American voters.[5][6][1]

[1](www.nbcnews.com)
[2](www.nytimes.com)
[3](www.foxnews.com)
[4](www.risehealth.org)
[5](www.kff.org)
[6](www.kff.org)
[7](thehill.com)
[8](www.wsj.com)
[9](thehill.com)
[10](www.npr.org)
[11](colohealthplans.org)

#14 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-10-09 01:52 PM

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