NEW REPORT: Husted Pushes to Raise Costs for Ohioans
December 9, 2025
Columbus, Ohio — Jon Husted wants to send health care costs soaring for Ohio families, according to new reporting from Ohio Capital Journal.
Health insurance premiums are set to skyrocket for an estimated 583,000 Ohioans as the ACA tax credits expire. Husted has already voted eight times against lowering health care premiums and continues to attack the ACA tax credits that Ohioans rely on, claiming they are “not the way to go about it.”
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Ohio Capital Journal: Ohio U.S. Sen. Jon Husted wants to “freeze” ACA insurance subsidies
- With health insurance costs poised to spike for more than a half-million Ohioans, U.S. Sen. Jon [Husted’s proposal] consists mostly of raising costs or cutting benefits for low and middle-income consumers whose pay and insurance plans aren’t as good as his own.
- With the country mired in an affordability crisis, large majorities of Americans want to see the subsidies extended.
- Husted has been highly critical of the ACA subsidies, which are credited with helping to bring down the rate of uninsured Americans to an all-time low. He voted repeatedly against extending them.
- In his Nov. 20 floor speech, Husted called them, “Another $350 billion on the national credit card for a program that we know is dysfunctional.”
- Husted’s office didn’t respond last week when asked why he was against extending that program as is, while he was OK with voting last summer for President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
- To do so, [Husted] proposed a “fraud, freeze and fix approach.” Most pertinent to Ohioans who get their insurance on the ACA exchanges is the “freeze” portion of the formula.
- The freeze would fall on people using the exchanges. They would either see their costs go up with health-sector inflation, or some would be locked out of the program.
- If the ACA subsidies are allowed to expire, marketplace recipients will lose those savings. That would create large numbers of uninsured people who would still get sick, but couldn’t pay for their care — a matter Husted didn’t discuss.
- Freezing the amount spent on the program would require some mix of reducing eligibility and increasing participants’ costs.
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