Once those tax cuts expire, just about everyone on the individual insurance market will face higher health insurance costs without a tax cut to help pay for it. And even in the short term, some people's tax cuts would effectively be erased by the higher premiums they'd face without the individual mandate.
Threat level: As my colleague Caitlin Owens reports this morning, based on an analysis from the Commonwealth Fund, the biggest burden here would fall on people who buy insurance on their own, but don't get subsidies to help cover their premiums.
- Those subsidies help insulate low-income consumers from premium hikes, but the people who don't get them will be on the hook for all of the added costs that come with repealing the individual mandate — and that would eat up a lot of the extra money they'd be keeping because of the bill's tax cuts.
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