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I think well-meaning negotiators on both sides of the aisle could come to an agreement.

It's getting late. Open enrollment is going on right now, so it's kind of like trying to retrofit a plane mid-flight.

The federal government could reopen soon, but lawmakers aren't any closer to agreeing on health care reform.

It's Wednesday, November 12th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBOR Boston.

I'm Shiko Thauri.

Today on the show, Western states miss a key deadline to agree on how to share the shrinking Colorado River.

We're one bad year away effectively from a Deadpool situation where everybody would get not a little bit less, but zero.

And tis the season for stew.

Our resident chef Kathy Gunst has some delicious recipes to help you stay warm and cozy.

But first, the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history appears to be in sight. House members are voting on a spending plan that would fund the government through the end of January. The plan does not,

however, include Democrats' key demand of extending pandemic-era tax subsidies for people under Obamacare.

Those subsidies expire at the end of the year, and premiums are set to more than double.

Republicans say going forward, they have lots of ideas to fix health care. Let's get into it with

Larry Levitt, the Executive Vice President for Health Policy at KFF. Leavitt starts his conversation with

Peter O'Dowd by explaining what would happen to our health care system if ACA subsidies are not extended.

So we are in the middle of open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act.

So people are already going online and finding out how much their out-of-pocket premiums are going to increase starting January 1st

because these enhanced tax credits have not been extended.

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