The White House has shown little urgency in extending the subsidies until shutdown ends.
Republicans are barreling toward the upcoming Obamacare enrollment period without a unified plan to address the sticker shock that millions of Americans are likely to experience due to the expiration of key federal subsidies.
The lack of direction comes from the top, with Trump not providing clear guidance to his party on how he wants to deal with the expiring subsidies that could result in dramatic out-of-pocket price hikes for enrollees.
It’s not that the industry is dead - it’s just that health insurance companies are insanely parasitic and are about to kill the host. The death-spiral already started and there simply isn’t enough money to rebuild or ‘reform’ a privatized healthcare system where insurance companies sit at all the choke points.