News Briefs: Most Americans Back ACA Subsidy Extension, Poll Finds

Jun 20
Jun 20, 2025

A large majority, or 77%, of the American public supports extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. That’s according to the latest KFF Health Tracking poll, which also found that 22% of poll respondents supported letting the enhanced subsidies expire. However, the poll found that 72% of Americans have heard little or nothing at all about the enhanced subsidies, and “people’s views on whether to extend them can shift when presented with different facts and arguments about their impact.” For example, support for extending the tax credits waned when people were told it would increase the budget deficit, but support for an extension swelled when people learned that letting the subsidies expire would decrease insurance affordability and lower insured rates.
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Leslie Small

Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.