Do you think Congress should extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, or let them expire at the end of this year?

Extend them (58%) – "I work in insurance see the excessive costs folks under 65 without group coverage pay, and it would be devastating to lose the subsidies. I fear many will just forgo insurance all together and be living uninsured. Which means when (not if) they get sick or injured, they will go to the emergency room/urgent care clinic and taxpayers will end up paying that bill."

• "It is insane that we are even arguing about this. If we're worried about the federal deficit, let's look at business tax breaks or the fact that personal tax brackets stop going up after you make $626,351 as head of household. We have to stop using fear tactics (example: Republicans "arguing that they drive up insurance costs") to place an undue burden on the (shrinking) middle class and those with less."

"Congress is elected by the people and should be fighting to make life more affordable for the people, and healthcare should be a right that the people of America deserve. Other countries provide free healthcare to their people why can’t the USA. Especially if the USA can give $40Billion to Argentina. I thought this regime’s mantra is America first. They certainly haven’t shown that since taking the reigns, the price of not one single item has come down!"

• "No one should be without healthcare in a system that forces them to buy it just to make sure they can live. It’s horrible that it’s even a question. Maybe if the government didn’t give dollars away to other countries to commit genocide we would have the money to extend these subsidies no problem. If the government is “for the people” they should want to help the people."

"Even if they were no longer needed as Republicans claim and were to be a short term solution to the ACA failings, then fixing those failing should be the goal in order to effectively protect Americans from a significant cost increase to their premiums."

• "The American people deserve to be able to afford their own health coverage. The high cost, regardless of subsidy, is daunting. It is a cost of living that we build into our budgets. It’s not fun, nobody wants to feel like they are wasting money, however, the safety of being protected from enormous bills is worth the budgeting. I support the Democrats is their efforts to protect subsidies for healthcare for millions of Americans."

Let them expire (29%) – "Our elected Congress passed the act to intentionally expire after the COVID threat was over. It is now over and today's officials should do as those who crafted the plan, in an emergency, designed it. Those provisions were never intended to be permenant,! Let those COVID oriented terms expire as planned. There is no longer an emergency! If Congress would quit listening to Big Pharma, BIg Food and Big AG, we could dramatically lower healthcare costs, Insurance costs, medical costs and prolong the lives of Americans! Follow the Money!"

• "The story distorts the issue. Covid is over. The subsidies were never intended to be permanent. Without the government (taxpayers) subsidizing the program, the whole “cheaper” public-healthcare insurance program would financially collapse. It was not sustainable, they knew it, and now with twice the number of participants, it’s just another over promised mess."

"The problem isn't the tax credits/subsidizing of the premiums. The problem that Congress needs to address is why the premiums for health insurance under the ACA have skyrocketed non-stop since its enactment, contrary to every promise that it would make health insurance AND healthcare more affordable. Since it has done neither, perhaps that is the issue to tackle rather than continuing to paper over the problem and drive the US further into debt."

Unsure/other (13%) – "I'm not in favor of the subsidies; on the whole, we can't afford them (among a great deal of other spending we also can't afford, to be clear). That said, an immediate expiration would result in sharply increased costs for many people who are even less equipped to manage those costs. I'd favor a slow, tiered, rescission of the subsidies, say over the next two to three years."