Those Obamacare Insurance Subsidies Are About 0.2 Percent of Federal Spending

A Washington Post article discussed the future prospects for the Affordable Care Act now that the repeal efforts seem to have gone done to defeat. At one point the article referred to the cost-sharing subsidies in the program, which cover out of pocket expenses for moderate income households. It reports that these subsidies will "cost about $7 billion this year and $10 billion in 2018."

It would have been useful to put these numbers in a context that would be meaningful to readers....