{"id":10689,"date":"2026-01-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=10689"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:00:00","slug":"journalists-update-listeners-on-expiration-of-insurance-subsidies-and-new-rural-health-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=10689","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Update Listeners on Expiration of Insurance Subsidies and New Rural Health Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed changes to the Affordable Care Act in 2026 and how enrollees may be affected on WUNC\u2019s <em>Due South<\/em> on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/show\/due-south\/2026-01-07\/year-in-review-higher-education-hbcu-101-enrollment-aca-changes-impact-tens-of-thousands\">Click here to hear Appleby on <em>Due South<\/em><\/a> (begins 33:00).<\/p>\n<p>Read Appleby\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/obamacare-aca-congress-price-increases-subsidies-open-enrollment\/\">Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News South Dakota correspondent Arielle Zionts discussed rural health funding on South Dakota Public Broadcasting on Dec. 22.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdpb.org\/healthcare\/2025-12-22\/how-south-dakota-proposal-compares-to-other-rural-health-transformation-plans\">Click here to hear Zionts on South Dakota Public Broadcasting.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Zionts\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/rural-health-transformation-program-cms-state-applications-transparency\/\">Feds Promised \u2018Radical Transparency\u2019 but Are Withholding Rural Health Fund Applications<\/a>,\u201d co-reported with Sarah Jane Tribble.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed ACA subsidy expiration on WUGA\u2019s <em>The Georgia Health Report<\/em> on Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2025-12-19\/georgia-health-report-senate-does-not-extend-aca-enhanced-tax-credits\">Click here to hear Rayasam on <em>The Georgia Health Report<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Julie Appleby\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/obamacare-aca-congress-price-increases-subsidies-open-enrollment\/\">Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/on-air-january-10-2026-aca-obamacare-premium-subsidies-rural-health-fund\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed changes to the Affordable Care Act in 2026 and how enrollees may be affected on WUNC\u2019s Due South on Jan. 7. Click here to hear Appleby on Due South (begins 33:00). Read Appleby\u2019s \u201cSticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers.\u201d KFF Health News South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}