Expanding Obamacare subsidies will cause even more inflation

Published February 4, 2022 12:00am ET



In 2021, inflation soared to 7%.

We feel it at checkout counters, gas pumps, and in healthcare costs. The Build Back Better Act, currently stalled in the Senate but still looming in the legislative background, would encourage already sky-high health insurance premiums to rise even higher, making more people reliant on taxpayer subsidies to afford insurance.

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