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Wendy Netter Epstein

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Professor of Law, DePaul University

Lawmakers limited Affordable Care Act subsidies to a few years, setting the stage for a fight over them in 2025. Ted Eytan/Wikimedia Commons

October 7, 2025

Health insurance subsidy standoff pits affordable care for millions against federal budget constraints

Wendy Netter Epstein, DePaul University and Christopher Robertson, Boston University

Short-term renewals of policies such as the ACA subsidies set up repeated battles in Congress.

Mitt Romney, left, and Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, in a presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa. Both men backed some of the original ideas of the ACA. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo

November 10, 2020

Conservatives backed the ideas behind Obamacare, so how did they come to hate it?

Christopher Robertson, Boston University and Wendy Netter Epstein, DePaul University

Republicans have attacked the Affordable Care Act since it became law 10 years ago, yet Republicans were the ones who came up with the blueprint for the law. How did this twist happen?

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