Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Dwight Evans (2nd District of Pennsylvania)
WASHINGTON (Dec. 15, 2025) – Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3) welcomed the House of Representatives’ recent passage of a “Hospital at Home” bill he’s co-leading, and said the same type of bipartisan cooperation is needed to prevent a cost spike on Dec. 31 for 24 million Americans’ health insurance.
“I’m pleased that we were able to get a bill to renew the vital ‘Hospital at Home’ program for five years through the deeply divided House. It’s a common-sense bill that helps thousands of patients to receive better care from more than 200 hospitals around the country, including some patients in the Philadelphia area – and it saves money,” Evans said.
In November 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established a waiver to provide hospitals with increased flexibility to care for certain patients from the comfort and convenience of their homes, rather than in a hospital setting. According to the American Hospital Association, this model has been proven to “reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience.” A recent CMS report shows that allowing patients to be treated in a more familiar environment and routine accelerates recovery time, lowers the mortality rate and reduces the risk of hospital-acquired infections and falls.
Evans said, “Now we need the Republican majorities in the House and Senate to bring that same spirit of cooperation to another health-care issue. We need them to share the sense of urgency that Democrats in Congress already have about preventing a massive cost spike about two weeks from now for health coverage that 24 million Americans count on.
“Tax credits that make health insurance more affordable for those 24 million Americans expire at the end of the year. If Republicans let those tax credits lapse, an estimated 150,000 Pennsylvanians will have to drop their coverage, and about 350,000 other Pennsylvanians will be making tough choices to pay for a massive increase in their premiums. But this crisis is preventable!
“We just need four House Republicans to join us in signing a discharge petition to force a House vote on extending these tax credits for working-class Americans. This is the same procedure we successfully used a few weeks ago to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Similarly, health care can’t wait!”
Evans also released a short video about this urgent issue.
“Working Americans need congressional Republicans to act on these health-care tax credits with the same speed they displayed earlier this year, when Republicans rushed a tax cut for the richest into law,” Evans said.
Evans also addressed two key reasons why some Republicans in Congress have opposed renewing the tax credits:
“These tax credits aren’t about Covid – President Biden proposed them in 2019, several months before the Covid crisis began in the U.S., and more than a year before he took office in January 2021.
“And claims of fraud appear to be overblown, especially in states that run their own health-insurance exchanges like Pennsylvania does with Pennie.com. The Trump administration does need to explain why it reinstated 850 agents and brokers who had been suspended from Affordable Care Act enrollment for suspected fraudulent or abusive conduct related to unauthorized enrollments or plan switches.
“The bottom line is: Congress needs to renew these health-care tax credits – NOW!” Evans said.
Evans represents the 3rd Congressional District, which includes Northwest and West Philadelphia and parts of North, South, Southwest and Center City Philadelphia. He recently announced that his office returned to or saved $4.5 million for constituents in 2024 in cases involving federal agencies such as the IRS, Social Security Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs. The 2024 figure brings Evans’ office’s total to more than $45.5 million returned to or saved for constituents during his first eight years in Congress.
Evans serves on the influential House Ways and Means Committee, including its Subcommittee on Health. The committee oversees Social Security, Medicare, taxes, and trade. Evans’ website is evans.house.gov and his social media handle is @RepDwightEvans on YouTube, Bluesky, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Threads.