Magaziner to address rising healthcare costs, expiring Obamacare tax credits

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Rhode Island Congressman Seth Magaziner will meet with local healthcare workers Tuesday to discuss healthcare costs, an issue at the heart of the government shutdown.

In a release, Magaziner’s office said he will meet at the Cambridge Innovation Center in Providence to “highlight the ongoing health care affordability crisis, which is driving up insurance premiums for patients and straining hospital budgets.”

Magaziner is due to return to Washington, D.C. in coming days amid the shutdown, which is ongoing in part due to expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits.

These credits help 40,000 Rhode Island residents afford their healthcare coverage, according to Magaziner’s office.

Magaziner’s office said that speakers at the event will advocate for the extension of the credits and to reel back $1 trillion in “Republican-led Medicaid cuts passed in July.”