NEW: Jon Husted Still Refuses to Support Bipartisan Push to Lower Health Care Costs

NEW: Jon Husted Still Refuses to Support Bipartisan Push to Lower Health Care Costs

December 17, 2025

Premiums Set to Spike for More Than Half a Million Ohioans

Columbus, Ohio - Jon Husted is still refusing to support extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits and lowering health care costs for more than half a million Ohioans - even after a bipartisan discharge petition in the House today secured enough Republican signatures to come to the floor for a vote.

Despite bipartisan support in the House and Senate, Jon Husted has voted nine times against lowering health care premiums for Ohio families. Because of Husted's votes, an estimated 583,000 Ohioans are bracing for their premiums to skyrocket next year.

Ohio Democratic Party Senior Communications Advisor Tony Wen released the following statement:

"Jon Husted continues to refuse to support extended tax credits for Ohioans - and he's voted nine times to make health care more expensive for Ohio families. More than half a million Ohioans are now bracing for their premiums to double or even triple, and Husted isn't lifting a finger to help them."

Read more about Jon Husted's health care crisis:

• Jon Husted has voted 9 times this year against lowering premium costs for Ohio families and claimed the ACA tax credits have done "nothing to drive down the cost of health care."

• When asked how best to help working families afford health insurance, Jon Husted said the ACA tax credits were "not the way to go about it."

• More than half a million Ohioans will see their healthcare premiums get more expensive or risk losing coverage entirely if Jon Husted allows tax credits that help families afford coverage to expire at the end of the month.

• Ohio families could see their premiums increase by an average of $804 a year because Jon Husted is refusing to take action to extend the ACA tax credits.

• The average 60-year-old couple could see a $1,300 increase in their premiums on average. That's an entire paycheck for most Ohioans.

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