Augusta, Maine – With one week left in the CoverME, ACA’s open enrollment period for plans that start January 1st, here is a reminder of Susan Collins’ long record refusing to extend ACA tax credits:

• Collins and Republicans refused to include an extension for ACA Tax Credits in the One Big Ugly Bill that Collins voted to advance.

• Collins forced a government shutdown to avoid extending ACA tax credits.

• Collins repeatedly voted against extending ACA tax credits.

• Collins refused to include an extension of ACA tax credits in the deal to reopen the government that she claimed credit for negotiating.

• Collins called ACA tax credits “poison pills.”

• Collins claimed extending the enhanced premium ACA tax credits “does not have a Sept. 30 deadline,” despite Maine insurance rates already going up and Maine state officials warning action must be taken before September 30th.

• Then, Collins made a new excuse for not extending ACA tax credits saying “the insurance rates have already been issued for the year and the marketplace is already open, so it makes it very difficult” to make changes and negotiate a deal to extend ACA tax credits.

Because Collins’ refused to extend ACA tax credits, more than 50,000 Mainers are seeing their insurance premiums “double, triple or even quadruple” and “2,000 people who buy marketplace health insurance have already canceled their 2026 coverage.”

Maine Democratic Party spokesperson Tommy Garcia:
“Susan Collins repeatedly refused to extend ACA tax credits when she had the chance. She ignored stories from impacted Mainers, brushed aside the fact thousands of Mainers are losing health care coverage, disregarded warnings from state leaders that action had to be taken urgently, and opposed Democrats’ efforts to extend credits. Susan Collins is to blame for Mainers’ skyrocketing insurance rates and voters will hold her accountable in 2026.”