Congress has returned to its fall legislative battles. Among them: whether to extend the Biden-era expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies passed during the COVID pandemic.
These so-called “temporary” enhancements, originally enacted under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) during COVID, were meant to soften the economic blow of a global health emergency, but Washington is now flirting with the idea of making them permanent.
That would be a colossal mistake.
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