This has been coming for 15 years. It’s the democrats’ law and they are the ones who wrote it. If they didn’t want subsidies to ever end, they should have written it that way.
So why didn’t they write it that way? To pretend that the legislation wouldn’t cost us as much as reality dictates? To make another incremental step toward single-payer?
And they are not getting rid of subsidies (welfare)(an integral part of Obamacare/ACA)...they are just letting the extra-large COVID era added subsidies expire.
Right now with ACA/Obamacare we are 85% of the way to socialized/single-payer health “insurance”...the government is paying 85+% of the inflated cost (inflated by having to also pay insurance company salaries, etc.). We either have to say “uncle” and let it go full socialized and crash the country fiscally, or go back to traditional health insurance driven by actuaries that know you need a pool of policyholders that includes the young and old, and get the government out of healthcare 100%...which causes prices to drop 80%, making it affordable for the middle class on an insurance policy or cash basis.