(WPDE) — The Affordable Care Act (ACA), a government program that more than 600,000 South Carolinians rely on for health insurance, is facing rising rates that may cause a huge chunk of people across the state to drop their insurance.
Enhanced federal healthcare subsidies, first implemented during the pandemic, are helping aid 24 million middle- and lower-income Americans afford private health insurance plans under the ACA, commonly known as Obamacare.
Since the federal shutdown on Oct. 1, Congressional Democrats have refused to go along with any plan to reopen the government that does not reverse GOP legislation that ended enhanced subsidies that assist millions of ACA participants across the country…