Republicans face a health care backlash in Georgia as subsidies set to expire [View all]

(Politico) Republicans across the country are in a bind of President Donald Trump’s making: After voting to end the 43-day federal shutdown, they have yet to articulate a plan to tackle the upcoming spike in health care premiums.

That conundrum is coming into sharp relief in Georgia, a state with an especially high reliance on the Affordable Care Act, where Republicans have one of their best opportunities to pick up a Senate seat as they fight to maintain their grip on Congress.

Georgia Republicans running to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff are avoiding talking about health care in their crowded primary, giving him leverage to tout his vote against the shutdown on the grounds that the deal did not address the loss of subsidies. One study from the Georgia Health Initiative projected premiums will more than double, on average, after the planned Dec. 31 expiration of the subsidies.

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