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Open enrollment day arrives with no subsidies in place

Saturday marks the first day people who buy their own health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace can sign up for coverage, and they are going to be seeing some major spikes in how much they’ll have to pay for insurance.

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Nov. 1 has been a key date in the fight over the government shutdown, as Democrats have long argued that if the enhanced federal subsidies aren’t renewed by that point, the impact on consumers will be dramatic.

Democrats blame Republicans for not wanting to extend the enhanced subsidies and not caring about the cost to consumers, while many Republicans say the tax credits mask the underlying failure of ObamaCare, and the whole system needs changing. According t

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