Telephone Town Hall Wednesday on Medicare Open Enrollment
My Medicare open enrollment telephone town hall will be held this Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. If you’ve already signed up to be called, you’ll stay on the list. If you haven’t signed up to be called but would like to join, just call 888-480-3686 at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Medicare open enrollment for 2026 has begun and will run through this Sunday, Dec. 7. You can also find impartial help through the commonwealth’s PA MEDI program.
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)/Pennie open enrollment
I also want to remind everyone that open enrollment has begun for Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) coverage for 2026. Dec. 15, 2025, is the deadline to enroll in coverage that begins Jan. 1. Pennsylvanians enroll through Pennie, the commonwealth’s ACA exchange.
And I want to let you know that I and my House Democratic colleagues are continuing to push for an extension of the ACA tax credits that make coverage more affordable for millions of Americans. I proudly signed a discharge petition that would force a House vote on a three-year extension of these tax credits. This is the same procedure that successfully forced a vote a few weeks ago on releasing the Epstein files.
Earlier this year, the Republican majorities in Congress rushed to pass tax cuts for the richest. The health-insurance tax credits expire at the end of this month, and I believe they should be a higher priority in Congress than those tax cuts for the richest.
While I’m happy that the federal government has reopened and that workers are being paid after a record six-week shutdown, I recently voted No on the Republican funding bill because it did not address what I consider to be the other shutdown Americans are facing – the massive cost spike in health-insurance premiums for 24 million Americans, caused by the looming expiration of the ACA tax credits. This would effectively shut many of them out of health coverage.
I will keep pressing for an end to the health-care shutdown and a focus on actions that would make a real difference on affordability – as far as I’m concerned, this fight is not over!
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