2025

ABC News | "How Affordable Care Act subsidies became a sticking point in the government shutdown"


ABC News interviewed Dr. Naomi Zewde, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the Affordable Care Act.

ABC News interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Naomi Zewde, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the Affordable Care Act.

ABC News interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Naomi Zewde, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the Affordable Care Act and the current government shutdown. Zewde said working low-income families and adults will be affected if an extension of current ACA subsidies is not approved.

"Mainly those who don't get insurance through their job, who make too much for Medicaid, but not enough to pay [about] $600-plus per month for a plan with a two-to-three-thousand-dollar deductible," Zewde said.

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