KEY POINTS

Medicaid cuts and expiring ACA subsidies are at the center of the government shutdown.

Democrats want to extend health care tax credits and restore cuts, Republicans do not.

Rural communities are likely to see premium increases due to expired ACA subsidies.

Medicaid cuts passed this summer and enhanced premium subsidies in the Affordable Care Act set to expire at year’s end are at the heart of the government shutdown. The Senate has been unable to secure enough Democrat votes to extend funding to temporarily keep the government open.

As Deseret News reported , Democrats want to reverse the Medicaid health care cuts that were part of President Donald Trump’s tax package this summer and to permanently extend ACA tax credits.

Per the article, “Those demands have been ruled a

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