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Panic tears through U.S. as health insurance costs spike (prospect.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

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The end of expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act exchanges means more people will go without health insurance, workers, doctors, and researchers said.

Open enrollment is under way for 2026 insurance coverage, and millions of Americans are facing extreme sticker shock thanks to the end of expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies, which capped Obamacare premiums for a “benchmark” insurance plan at 8.5 percent of income. Twenty-two million people relied on that funding, at a cost of about $35 billion annually.

With the expanded subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, reverting back to a less generous subsidy level last in place in 2021, patients around the country are facing premium increases that are so extreme, they’re either reducing health insurance coverage or dropping it altogether. Some are facing price hikes many multiples higher than they paid last year; those whose costs only doubled told the Prospect they considered themselves lucky by comparison.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Americans voted for this. Have the day you voted for. It’s just a shame that it affects all the others who tried to warn you, tried to stop you, and were disenfranchised.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

I would very much like the day I voted for. Maybe even the day I voted for in spring 2016…

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world -2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You need to stop saying shit like this. First of all, most people did NOT vote for the orange taco pedophile Nazi, despite whatever fudged numbers he's pulled out of his arse. Secondly, I guarantee nobody voted for cut healthcare, cut nutrition, masked unidentified fake law enforcement kidnapping brown people. Nobody voted for the orange taco Nazi to renovate the big white government residence without permits or authorization or for him to decorate his borrowed office with gaudy gold embellishments while the citizens whose interests he's supposed to be serving, he instead removes all their resources to leave them starving & homeless. I guarantee nobody voted for any of that draconian bullshit. Orange taco Nazi fired all the government workers who'd've stopped him from committing these crimes against humanity, and now with no checks & balances* in his way he's becoming Hitler & Kim Il Sung.

*Checks & Balances, remember those? They used to be the level-headed, logical presidential advisors who would stop the president in case he's about to do something illegal or selfish or stupid.

The orange taco Nazi made sure that only evil greedy wealthy compassionate-less Nazi sympathizers surround him everywhere he goes.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

First of all, most people did NOT vote for the orange taco pedophile Nazi, despite whatever fudged numbers he's pulled out of his arse.

No, you need to stop saying shit like this. Americans collectively voted for this in the only ways that matter. Anything else you want to say is just copium designed to delude yourself into thinking things aren't as bad as they are. They are that bad and we literally asked for it. Stop trying to downplay that fact.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

we literally asked for it

Do you understand the definition of "we?"

I DID NOT VOTE FOR ANY OF THIS! Leave ME out of your own sick "WE" horrorscape.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world -2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I do, but apparently you do not. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference what you personally voted for and if you haven't figured that out by now then there's no point in continuing this conversation.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"You voted for this. You are getting what you deserve."

I'm sorry if you voted for trump. I understand your bitterness and your impulse to drag everyone else into your miserable hellscape. But I didn't vote for trump. So stop blaming the current state of politics on people who did not vote for trump.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

No, you don't. You're blaming the non problems for the problems. You have no clue what you're talking about whatsoever.