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Affordable Care Act opponents hope employers will help them make “Obamacare” health insurance premium subsidies harder to get.

Chris Jacobs, a Paragon Health Institute analyst, argues in a new report on health care cost-cutting ideas that one simple way to reduce federal government health care spending would be to let the current, broad eligibility rules for individual health insurance premium tax credit subsidies expire, rather than renewing the current rules.


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