Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers

Obamacare bills are about to spike. But you still have time to save.

Affordable Care Act insurance plans are about to spike. Consumers can switch to a less expensive option if they switch plans by Dec. 15.

Healey urges Congress to extend Obamacare credits

BOSTON — Democratic Gov. Maura Healey is renewing calls for Congress to extend Obamacare tax credits, warning that health care premiums for tens of thousands of Bay Staters will skyrocket without legislative action.

Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers

We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums in recent years. The circumstances have led to deep consumer concerns about higher costs and fears of polit…

The GOP’s Obamacare price spike: Heath care costs are going up, just as the Democrats feared

At long last, surprising no one, Senate Republicans have blocked bills to extend Obamacare subsidies, sidestepping one more chance to address the issue careening towards a Dec. 31 cliff after which premiums for more than 20 million Americans will skyrocket. So the Democrats were right and this was the point of the longest-ever government shutdown, but they gave in only for the promise of a vote, and now have little leverage. There is a bipartisa…