Democrats in Congress are keeping the federal government shut down, they say, in order to “lower healthcare costs,” but the truth is they are using the public spectacle of the shutdown merely as a stage to save COVID-era temporary Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) subsidies they had already voted to terminate. A veteran journalist, however, has looked into why Democrats are now demanding the Obamacare subsidies be made permanent – and, as expected, it’s all about the money.