Oregonians who buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, often called Obamacare, are facing the likelihood of much higher costs next year , with no clear fix in sight.

A federal spending package expected to end the nation’s longest government shutdown leaves out a solution for the expiring enhanced premium tax credits that have helped millions of Americans, including thousands in Oregon, afford their health insurance.

Instead, the deal only promises a vote in December on whether to renew those pandemic-era tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of the year without any congressional action. The stopgap funding bill still needs to get approval from House lawmakers , and a vote is expected Wednesday night.

That uncertainty comes as open enrollment for

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