This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, health policy reporter Rachel Cohrs Zhang looks at the fight over Obamacare subsidies at the heart of the standoff on government funding. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.
Millions of Americans who buy their own health insurance are facing higher premiums next year. Just how much higher is the central question in the standoff that’s shut down the federal government.