ICYMI: AFP’s Emily Greene in The Philadelphia Inquirer: ‘Pennsylvanians should support letting Obamacare tax credits expire’

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HARRISBURG, PA – In case you missed it, Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania (AFP-PA) State Director Emily Greene published an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer titled “Pennsylvanians should support letting Obamacare tax credits expire,” as the federal government remains shut down over the issue.

Greene argues that these subsidies are a major driver of health care inflation and exactly the kind of wasteful, fraud-riddled government programs that Pennsylvanians rejected at the ballot boxes in the 2024 election.

Read an excerpt from the article below:

At the end of this year, the Biden administration’s COVID-era expansion of the Obamacare tax credits is set to expire. Special interests in Washington want Congress to extend them indefinitely, but doing so would be a mistake.

The pandemic is long over. That’s reason enough to eliminate measures that were put in place for those very specific circumstances. But the Trump administration and many Republicans in Congress have identified the subsidies for what they are — special interest handouts sold as measures to help patients that, in reality, line the pockets of insurance companies through waste, fraud, and abuse.

Read the full article online here.

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