Health care is at the epicenter of the federal government shutdown, which is on its way to an end after a deal between majority republican senators and a handful of democrats sunday night More than half a million ohioans rely on subsidies to get health insurance through the affordable care act, and. The burden is now on trump and republicans to bring down costs or risk peril in the those elections, after a splinter group of democrats agreed to end the shutdown by dropping their party’s demand to extend certain health insurance subsidies Despite repeated promises to offer an alternative to obamacare, trump has nothing much to show on the issue, beyond a vague plan to send money. Republicans either must agree to extend those insurance subsidies or take sole blame for killing an effort to continue assistance that has overwhelming public support. Republicans have emphatically rejected trump’s call, instead eyeing a bipartisan package that would pay for parts of government — food aid, veterans programs and the legislative branch, among other things — and extend funding for everything else until december or january.
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