ICYMI: Ohio Patients, Health Care Providers Sound the Alarm on Jon Husted’s Health Care Crisis
December 9, 2025
Warren, Ohio — With open enrollment now underway, health care premiums are skyrocketing for an estimated 583,000 Ohioans as the ACA tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year.
Last week, Ohio patients and health care providers sounded the alarm in Warren on Jon Husted’s health care crisis. Husted has already voted eight times against lowering health care costs and continues to attack the ACA tax credits that Ohioans rely on, claiming they are “not the way to go about it.”
See for yourself:
WFMJ: Ohioans Call Out Jon Husted For His Health Care Crisis
- Lindsay McCoy: With the Affordable Care Act tax credits set to expire, and open enrollment now underway, Ohioans could see their premiums double this year.
- Lindsay McCoy: The group blames Senator Husted saying he refused to act, saying that he used the Affordable Care Act as a political talking point but offers no alternatives to people in need of the subsidy.
- Janeen Shakelford, Warren resident: “You are supposed to be for the people, you are on the HELP Committee in the Senate, and you are not helping us. You’re making it harder for us and more difficult to live the American dream […].”
- Lindsay McCoy: The group also calls out the U.S. Senator for voting against lowering health care premiums eight times.
WKBN: Local group gathers in Warren to push for ACA tax credit extension
- Outside the now-closed Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull, a group of people held signs that said “Lower our Healthcare Costs” and “Save Our Healthcare.”
- They’re voicing their concerns about the impending expiration of Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits. It would mean a price hike for many people who rely on the marketplace for coverage.
- “I started off with around a $200 bill. My tax credits, if they are removed, have increased my cost to over $935 per month, which is $300 more than my mortgage,” said Janeen Shackleford, who relies on ACA for coverage.
- Dr. Alexis Smith said when people lose insurance, preventable conditions go untreated.
- “Emergency rooms become the primary source of care, families delay seeing a doctor until problems are more advanced and more expensive to manage,” she said. “Jon Husted and the Republicans need to extend the subsidies that keep Ohioans insured, healthy and financially stable.”
WFMJ: Patients, providers claim U.S. Senator failed to protect healthcare costs
- Some patients and health care providers met in Warren on Friday to share their thoughts on what they are calling a “health care crisis”, one they say United States Senator Jon Husted, who represents Ohio, has contributed to.
- With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits set to expire at the end of 2025, and with enrollment now open, some Ohio residents could be seeing their health care premiums double.
- The group present at the conference argued that Senator Husted refused to act to protect health care, specifically citing the ACA, claiming that Husted voted against lowering healthcare premiums eight times.
- “Think about the people we know. The single parent here in Warren working two jobs, the small business owner in Salem trying to keep the doors open, the contractor in Youngstown whose employer does not offer coverage. These are the people who stand to lose the most from subsidy cuts,” said Dr. Smith.
The Vindicator: Valley residents protest Husted over Obamacare tax credits
- Local residents, organized by a left-leaning organization, spoke against U.S. Sen. Jon Husted for not extending the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits that expire at the end of the month.
- Janeen Shackelford of Youngstown said the credits “have been a lifeline for me. They allowed me to become a real estate agent knowing I could afford coverage on the marketplace. Now, because of Jon Husted’s votes, my premiums are tripling next year and I won’t be able to afford my health insurance.”
- Shackelford was among about a dozen people Friday outside the closed Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull in Warren to speak against the Republican senator regarding the expiring ACA tax credits.
- Mike Phifer of Warren said Friday that Husted’s position means “my premiums, and thousands of others, are going up next year. It’s just one more thing getting more expensive thanks to Sen. Husted.”
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