ACT NOW to tell your members of Congress to extend the enhanced premium tax credits, keeping health care more affordable for PA families! A vote is scheduled to take place in the U.S. House on Thursday, and if it passes in the House, it heads to the Senate next week. We cannot let this opportunity pass by without YOU, their constituent, telling your legislators to vote YES to keep the enhanced tax credits.

In Pennsylvania, 496,661 people buy health insurance through Pennie. If the enhanced premium tax credits expire, premiums for Pennie enrollees are projected to increase by an average of 102%, making it unaffordable for many families and individuals to keep coverage. We expect 270,000 Pennsylvanians to lose health insurance by 2034 if Congress does not act.

Last month in the House, however, four Republicans—including three from Pennsylvania—signed a discharge petition to bring a bill to the floor that would extend the enhanced premium tax credits for three years.

Let’s be clear: Pennsylvania representatives Fitzpatrick, Mackenzie, and Bresnahan could and should have taken this step months ago. The only reason they did so last month is because people like you contacted them repeatedly via email, text, and phone calls to demand that they take action.

Your voice makes a difference! So, we are urging you to use it again to tell your member of the House and Senators Fetterman and McCormick to vote for this bill.

Under the rules of the U.S. House, a discharge petition requires that the legislation be brought to the floor. It appears that this will happen on Thursday, January 8. The legislation has a decent chance of passing the House if all Democrats and the four Republican signers of the discharge petition support it.  

Then the bill will go to the Senate. Here we need sixty votes because of the filibuster. It will be very difficult to get to sixty if Pennsylvania senator Dave McCormick votes against it.  

Health care should not be a luxury. Our task now is to contact our members of the U.S. House and Senators Fetterman and McCormick to urge them to vote for this legislation. Please use this tool to do so.

If the legislation passes the House and Senate and is signed by the President, almost 300,000 Pennsylvanians will be able to afford health insurance they cannot afford without the premium tax credits.