We’ll talk to Kathy Hempstead, a national health policy expert with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, about the impact of Congress and the president killing the tax credits that have made health insurance more affordable to Americans over the past four years. Restoring those credits is at the heart of a fight in Washington that could result in a government shutdown next week.

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