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It's New Year's Eve, and the rain is falling in Los Angeles.

So stay tuned to KFI for all the latest on traffic and

weather conditions. And stay tuned. All right. Well, you heard it there at the top of the hour

newscast. This is the deadline. And the report is that millions of Americans are facing

health care premium prices to go up, even though the House and the Senate are planning to negotiate a new CR in January.

But it will be too late now for these health care premiums to go up.

ABC News, Deputy Political Director Ben Siegel is with us in Washington.

Is there concern that the premiums are going to go up or is there a sense that this

will be fixed in the next CR?

I think there is concern, you know, from both parties in different ways.

I think Republicans are recognizing

that this is becoming a growing political problem for them after Democrats managed to make a lot

of their messaging around the government shut down the preservation of these Affordable Care Act tax

credits that are expiring this year. And know tomorrow will uh you know be the measure of

that when people start to see um the rates go up and their premiums go up because these because these

tax credits are expiring and uh at the same time it's also a challenge for democrats because uh you know

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