With subsidies that help consumers pay their health insurance premiums set to expire, health care shoppers face staggering prices. Lawmakers are running out of time to agree on a solution.

A new Gallup poll found that about eight in 10 Democrats, and 64 percent of Republicans, say the system is in crisis or has “major problems.”

Congress is facing an approaching deadline to extend expiring ACA tax credits or millions of Americans may pay higher premiums.

If it weren’t for health care and social assistance, hiring would have been totally flat last month. And there are signs health care hiring growth may be slowing. “Health care is really the last remaining reliable source of jobs growth for today's job market,” said Daniel Zhao, chief economist at Glassdoor.

Seven hospitals in New Jersey have received the Leapfrog Group’s “Top Hospital Award” for excellence in patient safety and quality of care.

“It will cause them to either change all of the affected medical providers or try to change their insurance if they have a valid enrollment period,” Fong told Newsweek. “There is a possibility that it could be resolved by tomorrow, end of the year, two months from now, or never.”

Lawmakers are scrambling to address skyrocketing health care costs in the final days before Congress leaves Washington for the holidays, with enhanced tax credits that make insurance premiums more affordable for millions of Americans set to expire at the end of the month.

A former Michigan pharmacist will spend more than six years in prison in connection with a $6 million health care fraud scheme.