Have you tried getting non-employer group insurance for your family?
If you don’t quit your job and go on welfare, the cost is prohibitive.
Not extending the subsidies is going to devastate the middle class, especially self employed and small business owners. IOW the MAGA base.
That means the Dems take over everything in November. Trump gets impeached and no conservative judges will ever be confirmed again.
There is a point where standing on principle is a suicide pact.
Extending the subsidies improves nothing long term, as subsidies NEVER lower the actual price/cost of what they subsidize, they just use taxes (subsidies) to cover up the actual costs. THAT incentivizes the sources of the costs - the insurers - to NEVER lower the prices, as the subsidies GUARANTEE they don’t need to. That is why (1) Obamacare has never worked (the subsidies) and (2) Obamacare has never lowered or slowed the raising of the actual insurance premiums. The “temporary” Covid extended and additional subsidies were (a) never expected by the Dims to be “temporary” and (b) intended to accelerate the actual damage the subsidies are doing to the actual premiums’ costs and (c) moving the needle closer and closer to everyone being subsidized to the point where the government MUST takeover the health insurance business altogether and implement a “single payer” plan, as the Marxist/Dims always wanted and intended.