# Is there a realistic chance the Republicans could overturn or severly weaken the ACA

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> [@PastTense](#):
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> I think the most likely approach is that they will cut the subsidies for it

That’s a very easy one for them to do, as well: the subsidies were expanded dramatically by the American Rescue Plan Act, championed by Biden, and passed into law in 2021. The ARPA expanded the number of people who qualified for some level of subsidy (which is based on income level), as well as increased the amount of subsidies that lower-income Americans (who had been qualifying for subsidies previously) would receive.

Simply by not extending that portion of the ARPA, they’d roll all of that back. Or, of course, they could just kill the subsidy system entirely.

> **[How the American Rescue Plan Act Affects Subsidies for Marketplace Shoppers...](https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/how-the-american-rescue-plan-act-affects-subsidies-for-marketplace-shoppers-and-people-who-are-uninsured/)**
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> This brief uses data from the American Community Survey (ACS) to provide estimates of eligibility for and the amount of financial assistance to purchase Marketplace coverage under the ARPA among both current individual market purchasers, as well as...

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