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The federal government shutdown is more than one month old.
Republicans want Democrats to vote for a spending bill in Congress to reopen the federal government.
Democrats say Republicans need to restore enormous cuts to federal health care programs,
such as the Affordable Care Act.
Starting tomorrow, people using the ACA will see what their new premiums will cost next year.
For many, the premiums will more than double.
Julie Rovner of KFF says consolidation in the health care industry is also driving up costs.
We've seen what we call this vertical consolidation,
where insurers are buying doctor practices and pharmacy benefit managers,
and all the people who are supposed to provide the checks and balances are now all under one umbrella,
and that enables them to basically have monopoly prices.
That was something that the Federal Trade Commission was actually working on,
and that's been pretty much stopped under the Trump administration.