Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

Affordable Care Act subsidies expired today, meaning higher health care premiums for millions of Americans.

Those subsidies, which Congress created during the pandemic, helped lower or eliminate the monthly premium for those who bought the insurance on the health care insurance marketplace.

Senator Peter Welch says Vermont is one of the states that will see some of the highest

premium jumps, and he says people are scared.

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Millions of Americans who bought their health insurance under the Affordable Care Act are bracing for much higher premiums.

ACA subsidies expired last night. Sarah Bowden has more.

Preliminary data from December show that enrollment is down a bit compared to last December,

but overall it is higher than expected. That could change over the course of this year.

Cynthia Cox is a researcher at the Health Policy Think Tank KFF.

She says it's kind of like the difference between putting groceries in your shopping cart and actually purchasing those groceries.

So you don't actually own those groceries until you paid for them, the same thing with health insurance.

You can sign up, you can pick a plan, but until you pay for it, it's not your health plan.

In most states, the final deadline to sign up for a plan for 2026 is January 15th.

For NPR News, I'm Sarah Bowden.

President Trump says he won't send National Guard troops to Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon, for now.

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