Health Care

ACA premium tax credits

80 public statements from 2026 candidates · 3 related bills

§1The range of views

Why this matters: For people who buy their own insurance, often self-employed workers or people without job-based coverage, these credits change how much they pay each month.

Drafted by AI, then checked for neutral wording in a separate AI review. It describes the question and the main positions, not any candidate's view. Facts link to their sources.

Whether to bring back the larger tax credits that lowered premiums for health plans bought on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces from 2021 until they expired at the end of 2025; the House passed a bill in January 2026 to extend them through 2028, but it has not become law.1,2,3

  1. Don't bring back the larger credits
  2. Instead of the larger credits, give the aid to people directly, such as deposits into health savings accounts
  3. Bring them back for a limited time, such as through 2028, with or without changes such as income limits or minimum premiums
  4. Bring back the larger credits permanently

These options describe policies, not people. The order is not a ranking.

§2What candidates have said

Why this matters: Statements candidates made publicly, summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Candidates who haven't spoken publicly on this issue aren't listed.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Instead of the larger credits, give the aid to people directly, such as deposits into health savings accounts (1)

  • Michael Gist FL-6
    His campaign website said the Freedom Accounts plan would turn programs including Medicaid and the ACA premium and cost-sharing subsidies into personal account money that people could spend on health care, with unspent money staying invested.4,5

Bring them back for a limited time, such as through 2028, with or without changes such as income limits or minimum premiums (4)

  • Dean Ocean Abrams FL Governor
    His campaign website says he supports extending the enhanced ACA tax credits as a bridge so premiums do not jump suddenly.6
  • Sarah Zabel ID-1
    Her health care plan says she would use revenue from a surtax on excess pharmaceutical profits to restore as much of the expired ACA subsidies as possible, as a bridge while structural reforms take hold.7
  • Bennie G. Thompson MS-2
    His campaign website lists among his accomplishments voting to extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits for three years.8
  • Maggie Goodlander NH-2
    Her campaign website says she led bipartisan legislation, the Common Ground for Affordable Healthcare Act, which passed the House and would extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years.9

Bring back the larger credits permanently (11)

  • Lee McInnis AL-3
    His campaign website says he would make the ACA premium tax credits permanent.10
  • Mike McGuire CA-1
    His campaign's rural plan says he would restore the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies and make them permanent.11
  • Connie Chan CA-11
    Her campaign website says she would restore the ACA premium subsidies and make those tax credits permanent.12
  • Adam Gray CA-13
    His campaign website lists among his accomplishments introducing a bill to permanently extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits and helping pass a three-year extension of them.13
  • Sarah McBride DE-AL
    Her campaign website says the same bill would permanently extend the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits that were allowed to expire.14,15
  • Alexander Cooke FL-21
    His campaign website says he would cosponsor a permanent extension of the enhanced ACA premium tax credits.16,17
  • Tony Kozycki GA-7
    His campaign website says he will fight to restore and make permanent the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits.18
  • Chris Harden GA-11
    His campaign website says he will fight to permanently restore and expand the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits.19
  • Sean Casten IL-6
    His campaign website says he strongly supports expanding the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits and making them permanent, and that he has cosponsored legislation to make them permanent.20
  • Jeffrey Hulum III MS-4
    His campaign website’s FAQ page says he wants the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits made permanent in order to lower marketplace premiums.21
  • Ben R Lujan NM Senate
    His campaign website says that after the ACA premium tax credits expired, he led Senate Democrats in introducing a bill to extend them permanently.22

Statements that don't match one option (64)

  • Bill Hill AK-AL
    His campaign website says he supports extending the federal health care subsidies that it says are keeping costs from rising sharply.23
  • Clyde Jones AL-1
    His campaign website says he supports the enhanced ACA premium tax credits as a way to ease health care costs.24
  • Melissa Hernandez CA-14
    Her campaign website says she would restore the insurance subsidies that lower premiums and restore funding for health programs serving vulnerable families.25
  • Sam Liccardo CA-16
    His campaign website lists among his accomplishments introducing the Fix It Act, a bipartisan bill to extend the ACA premium tax credits in a way it says would also save taxpayer money.26
  • Salud Carbajal CA-24
    His campaign website says that through COVID-19 relief laws he helped expand Affordable Care Act tax cuts that lowered premiums for millions of families.27,28
  • Samantha Mota CA-37
    Her campaign website calls for repealing cuts to ACA subsidies.29
  • Linda Sánchez CA-41
    Her campaign website says she is fighting to protect ACA subsidies.30
  • Dave Min CA-47
    His campaign website says he voted to protect the enhanced premium tax credits and that they must be restored.31
  • Marni von Wilpert CA-48
    Her campaign website says she would restore the ACA tax credits.32
  • Mike Levin CA-49
    His campaign website says he has fought to improve health insurance affordability, including by strengthening tax credits for middle-class families.33
  • John Hickenlooper CO Senate
    His campaign website says he is working to restore funding for Affordable Care Act subsidies.34
  • Angie Nixon FL Senate special
    Her campaign website says she supports restoring the ACA tax credits that, according to the site, 440,000 Floridians lost this year.35
  • Mike Sell FL-4
    His campaign's platform calls for restoring the enhanced ACA premium tax credits, saying about 1.4 million Floridians are at risk of losing coverage without them.36
  • Bale Dalton FL-7
    His campaign website says he would work to reverse recent increases in health insurance premiums, which it says have left ACA plan premiums up to four times as high as a year earlier.37
  • Jennifer Jenkins FL-8
    Her campaign website says she will work to restore and strengthen the ACA subsidies to lower premiums right away.38
  • Darren Soto FL-9
    His campaign website says recent cuts to the ACA are driving up health care costs and that he will work to reverse them.39,40
  • Leela Gray FL-13
    Her campaign website says the expired ACA tax credits must be restored.41
  • Robert People FL-15
    His healthcare plan says that until Medicare for All is in place he would vote to increase and extend ACA subsidies.42
  • Michael J. Quirk FL-17
    His campaign website says he would extend the premium tax credits working families rely on.43
  • Lois Frankel FL-23
    Her campaign website says she supports legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits.44
  • Jared Moskowitz FL-25
    His campaign website says he is fighting to restore the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits that expired.45
  • Amanda Hollowell GA-1
    Her 10 Point Affordability Agenda calls for strengthening the Affordable Care Act and restoring its enhanced subsidies.46
  • Josh Turek IA Senate
    His campaign website says he would protect and expand the Affordable Care Act for the 118,000 Iowans it says rely on its subsidies.47
  • Christina Bohannan IA-1
    Her campaign website says she will immediately extend the ACA tax credits fully, to lower premiums and allow time for real health care reform.48
  • Sarah Trone Garriott IA-3
    Her campaign website says the ACA tax credits need to be extended to keep insurance affordable for working families.49
  • Todd Achilles ID Senate
    His campaign website says he would protect the health care tax credits that help Idaho families afford coverage.50
  • Ellie Gilbreath ID-2
    Her policies page says she will restore ACA tax credits that lower insurance costs for Idaho families and push for a bipartisan fix to restore competition in the ACA marketplace.51
  • La Shawn K. Ford IL-7
    His campaign website says he will fight to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies so families do not face higher monthly costs, and will push to make affordability stable rather than temporary.52
  • Melissa L. Bean IL-8
    Her campaign website says she will work to extend the tax credits that have lowered premiums for families in the 8th District.53
  • Daniel Biss IL-9
    His campaign website says the Republican budget cuts Affordable Care Act premium support and that reversing those policies immediately will be step one.54
  • Nikki Budzinski IL-13
    Her campaign website says the Affordable Care Act's enhanced tax credits saved families hundreds of dollars a month, and that she is working to restore and extend those savings.55
  • Lauren Underwood IL-14
    Her campaign website lists writing the Health Care Affordability Act, which it says limits the cost of Marketplace health coverage to 8.5 percent or less of income and was signed into law as part of the American Rescue Plan and extended through the Inflation Reduction Act.56,57
  • Brad A. Meyer IN-9
    His campaign website says he would restore ACA subsidies to reduce out-of-pocket costs right away.58
  • Adam Hamilton KS Senate
    His campaign website says he would restore the enhanced ACA premium tax credits, whose end it says has raised premiums for Kansans who get help paying for marketplace coverage.59
  • Charles Booker KY Senate
    His campaign website says he would restore the Affordable Care Act subsidies.60
  • Zach Dembo KY-6
    His campaign website says he will fight to restore and expand the ACA tax credits so that health insurance stays within reach for working families.61
  • Patrick "Pat" Forbes LA-6
    His campaign website says he will restore the premium help that let working families buy a marketplace health plan, which Congress let expire.62
  • Richard E. Neal MA-1
    His campaign website lists among his accomplishments extending the tax credits for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans through 2025.63
  • Katherine M. Clark MA-5
    Her campaign website says she fought to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits that Republicans have not reauthorized.64
  • Dan Koh MA-6
    His campaign website says the country needs to reinstate the Affordable Care Act subsidies that millions of Americans rely on.65
  • John "Johnny O" Olszewski, Jr. MD-2
    His campaign website says he is pushing to extend the Affordable Care Act health-insurance tax credits, which it says help keep premiums down.66
  • Callie Barr MI-1
    Her campaign website says she supports extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies.67,68
  • Sean McCann MI-4
    His campaign website says he will fight in Congress to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits and reduce the cost of health care.69
  • Debbie Dingell MI-6
    Her campaign website says that letting the Affordable Care Act tax credits expire has pushed up health costs for more than 24 million Americans.70
  • Peggy Flanagan MN Senate
    Her campaign website says she will work to restore health care tax credits that it says were eliminated for 90,000 Minnesotans.71
  • Jake Johnson MN-1
    His campaign website lists extending tax credits for health insurance among the investments he would make in small towns.72
  • Erik Osberg MN-7
    His Healthcare for Everyone priority says he wants to restore and protect the Affordable Care Act subsidies so that families keep their coverage and avoid higher premiums.73
  • Trina Swanson MN-8
    The priorities page says she will protect health insurance tax credits so that 90,000 Minnesotans do not see their costs rise.74
  • Amy Klobuchar MN Governor
    Her campaign website says she will keep pushing for an extension of the federal premium tax credits and, if Congress does not act, work to create a state tax credit through MNsure for small business owners, self-employed workers and farmers.75
  • Wesley Bell MO-1
    His campaign website says he has fought to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that expired, saying their expiration raised premiums for families in the district.76
  • Fred Wellman MO-2
    His campaign website says he will fight to restore the ACA tax credits that Congress let expire.77,78,79
  • Scott Colom MS Senate
    His campaign website says he would restore the ACA tax credits that lower insurance premiums.80
  • Seth Bodnar MT Senate
    His campaign website says he would restore the enhanced ACA subsidies that expired.81
  • Sam Forstag MT-1
    His campaign website says he would restore and expand the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies so that people earning $70,000 or less have free coverage and everyone has affordable coverage.82
  • Roy Cooper NC Senate
    His campaign website says he would reinstate the expired Affordable Care Act premium tax credits.83
  • Deborah K. Ross NC-2
    Her campaign health care page says she has fought to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits so that health coverage stays affordable for North Carolinians.84
  • Valerie P. Foushee NC-4
    Her campaign website says she supports extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies, and its tax section lists restoring them among the measures she is working on.85
  • Alma S. Adams NC-12
    Her campaign website says she supports expanding tax credits that help people afford health insurance.86
  • Chris Backemeyer NE-1
    His campaign website says he would extend the ACA premium tax credits to lower monthly costs for families.87
  • Chris Pappas NH Senate
    His campaign website says he is working across the aisle to restore the enhanced ACA premium tax credits.88,89
  • Nelida Pou NJ-9
    Her campaign website says she called on congressional leaders to act on extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits, with the aim of reducing health care costs for families across the state.90
  • Annie Andrews SC Senate
    Her health care plan says she would work with both parties to bring back the expanded premium subsidies for marketplace insurance plans that expired last year.91
  • James Talarico TX Senate
    His campaign website says he would restore the Affordable Care Act's enhanced premium tax credits.92,93
  • Mark R. Warner VA Senate
    His campaign website says he is working to extend the tax credits that make health insurance more affordable for middle-class families.94

§3Related bills

Why this matters: Bills from 2023–2026 that bear on this issue, with how Congress handled them.