FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TOPEKA – For the ninth time, Senator Roger Marshall voted against extending essential Affordable Care Act enhanced tax subsidies. This move will spike healthcare costs for most of the 200,000 Kansans insured on the ACA marketplace. Even after publicly admitting that “premiums are going to go up,” Senator Roger Marshall cast a vote that ensures working families across Kansas will pay skyrocketing premiums for the same healthcare.
In response, Kansas Coalition for Common Sense spokesperson Lauren Fitzgerald released the following statement:
“Roger Marshall created a healthcare crisis that could spike healthcare costs for hundreds of thousands of Kansans, and in some cases, end their healthcare coverage entirely. Marshall is DC politics at its worst: openly admitting that his votes will make life more expensive for his constituents, but doubling down on his partisan agenda anyway. Kansans deserve better than Roger Marshall and his price-hiking agenda.”
Read more about Marshall’s attacks on Kansans’ healthcare:
- 200,046 Kansans who are enrolled in the marketplace coverage could see their healthcare premiums increase because of Republicans’ refusal to act.
- Kansans will lose out on an average of $580 per month ($6,960 annually) when Advanced Premium Tax Credits expire at the end of the month.
Roger Marshall voted nine times against extending ACA subsidies and a bipartisan compromise to protect affordable healthcare this fall:
- September 19, 2025: Roger Marshall voted against permanently extending the Affordable Care Act’s cost-lowering tax credits.
- September 30, 2025: Roger Marshall voted against permanently extending the Affordable Care Act’s cost-lowering tax credits.
- October 1, 2025: Roger Marshall voted against permanently extending the Affordable Care Act’s cost-lowering tax credits.
- October 3, 2025: Roger Marshall voted against permanently extending the Affordable Care Act’s cost-lowering tax credits.
- October 6, 2025: Roger Marshall voted against permanently extending the Affordable Care Act’s cost-lowering tax credits.
- October 8, 2025: Roger Marshall voted against permanently extending the Affordable Care Act’s cost-lowering tax credits.
- October 9, 2025: Roger Marshall voted against permanently extending the Affordable Care Act’s cost-lowering tax credits.
- November 10, 2025: Roger Marshall voted against extending the Affordable Care Act’s cost-lowering tax credits for one year.
- December 11, 2025: Roger Marshall voted against extending the Affordable Care Act’s cost-lowering tax credits for three years.
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