Amid Efforts to Reopen Government, Shaheen Hosts Health Care Roundtable on Importance of Extending ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credits

(Concord, NH) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH),author ofbicameral legislationthat would permanently extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits,continued her “Affordability Action Tour” with a roundtable discussion at New Futures with health care advocates, small business owners and Granite Staters that use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace for their health insurance coverage and are at risk of significantly higher premiums if the enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of this year.Photos from today’s roundtable can be foundHERE.
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Shaheenis leading effortsin Congress to make health care more affordable through the preservation and extension of enhanced premium tax credits which are at the center of the ongoing government funding fight. In early February, Shaheenhosted a press conferenceat New Futures to highlight her landmarkHealth Care Affordability Act—bicameral legislation with U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (IL-14) to permanently extend the tax credits for Marketplace coverage that have lowered health care costs for millions of Americans. The legislation was Shaheen’s first bill introduced this Congress.
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