In 2022, Democrats extended billions in ACA subsidies through the Inflation Reduction Act—money meant to keep coverage affordable post-COVID. The catch? A hard sunset at the end of 2025. Now, that expiration was the core of the government shutdown. Lawmakers held the entire federal government hostage—not over border security, not over spending caps, but over whether to keep sending your tax dollars straight to insurance companies.

Health policy experts today announced a new movement with a radical approach to health care policy – empowering patients with greater control, choice, and access by shifting health care funds from third parties and special interests to patients and consumers. 

The group, called Fund The Patient, says it aims to “disrupt today’s health care system” by directing cash straight to patients through vehicles such as health savings accounts, instead of going through government programs or insurance companies.