HR 4849 · in committee · major

Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act of 2025

What this bill does

This bill makes permanent expanded eligibility and increased premium tax credits for health insurance purchased through exchanges.
The changes affect taxpayers buying individual health insurance and people enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare.
The bill eliminates income caps and lowers tax credit percentages, effective immediately, while repealing certain healthcare verification requirements.

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Community Threads

Started by Cosponsor

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How would eliminating income caps on premium tax credits affect federal budget costs compared to current healthcare spending?
02
Which groups of workers or families would see the largest changes in their insurance affordability under the lowered tax credit percentages?
03
What healthcare verification requirements does the bill repeal, and how might removing them impact fraud prevention or program administration?

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Sponsor · D-CA-13

Adam Gray

Citizen cosponsors

In Congress

140/ 435

House Reps cosponsoring

Introduced 2025-08-01

Joining the bill

+ 128 more

Legislative timeline

2025-08-01 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2025-08-01 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2025-08-01 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-08-01 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House

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