12/26/2025

N. WISCONSIN – As we Head into the new year, hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites are left wondering if they’ll be able to afford their health insurance next year.

After Congress failed to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits. More than 300-thousand Wisconsinites purchased coverage through "health-care-dot-gov" or their state-sponsored marketplace last year, and nearly 90-percent qualified for the credits. The average savings were more than 600 dollars per month. Vaishu Jawahar with health policy group Protect Our Care says now, people will be faced with premium costs that double or triple in price on January 1st.

                    0:07  "Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, and just one illness or hospital visit could bankrupt them under these GOP plans."

Jawahar stresses under the expanded tax credits, just 8-percent of Americans were uninsured. She says under the Republican-led health plan signed last week, unaffordable health insurance will force many to forego coverage altogether. In Wisconsin, middle-class families, retirees, small business owners, self-employed individuals and farmers would be most impacted.