Americans — not health insurance companies — need relief

Americans have made it abundantly clear that they want relief from soaring healthcare costs. But Congress is bizarrely refusing to listen. Instead of actually lowering premiums, Democrats and a handful of Republicans are fighting to give health insurance companies a massive handout.

These lawmakers aren’t just refusing to solve the problem. They’re trying to make the public’s pain even worse.

That’s the reality of the so-called “deal” that Congress is trying to find on Obamacare subsidies. President Joe Biden massively expanded them in 2021, supposedly on a temporary basis during the COVID-19 pandemic. But now lawmakers are trying to extend them or even make them permanent. But the bigger subsidies drove costs higher, because insurance companies knew they could raise premiums and profit off taxpayers. It