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'Medications or paying the rent': Dr. weighs choices Americans will face without Obamacare subsidies

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November 17, 2025

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Dr. Uché Blackstock, founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, joins The Weekend: Primetime to discuss the impact of not extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, and how the lack of access to affordable care will disproportionately impact Black women and people of color. "People's lives are at risk, and they're going to have to make really tough decisions between their medications and paying the rent," says Blackstock.

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