Given the fraught nature of so much that has happened in politics during 2025, America has earned a holiday respite aside from the sordid blood-letting our self-styled “secretary of War” has either encouraged or ordered in the Caribbean. But there is a slow-motion crisis that continues to fester in Washington involving health-care policy, a Republican Achilles’ heel that never seems to heal. As part of the deal that led a crucial number of Democrats to support an end to the recent government shutdown , the Senate will hold some sort of vote next week on some sort of plan to address the rapidly approaching year-end expiration of increased Obamacare premium subsidies enacted in 2021. Both premiums and out-of-pocket health-care costs will skyrocket for up to 24 million Americans if no

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