CLEVELAND, Ohio – Hundreds of thousands of Ohioans could take a financial hit, putting their health care in jeopardy, unless Congress acts in the next few weeks to extend expiring aid on federal insurance premiums.

Access to affordable health care for millions of Americans was a bargaining chip used to end the federal government shutdown. Now, that access could be jeopardized, with potentially serious consequences, if Congress doesn’t vote to extend tax credits that help pay for that coverage.

“When you push someone off their health insurance, you’re condemning them to not getting health care, and that could be deadly or impairing,” said Dr. Arthur Lavin, a retired pediatrician and co-chair of Doctors Organized for Healthcare Solutions.

“People get into accidents, they have heart attack

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