Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen & Ryan Cooper
“One way of looking at Donald Trump’s plan for the Affordable Care Act, which has leaked out and was expected to be announced this week, is that it’s a surrender. (The fact that ‘strong congressional backlash’ has delayed the announcement fits this analysis.) While stopping short of making Democratic enhanced subsidies for millions of insurance exchange customers permanent, it does extend them for two years, similar to a bipartisan outline introduced last week. And while there are changes to the subsidies, some are relatively more benign than expected. One of the main goals of the enhanced subsidies, established in 2021, was to universalize affordable insurance and avoid the ‘cliff’ effect of cutting off aid at a particular income level. The Trump proposal restores that cliff but sets it much higher. Prior to 2021, the cliff was set at 400 percent of the federal poverty level. The Trump plan raises that to 700 percent.” (11/24/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/25/trump-obamacare-plan-affordable-care-act/