This is the MAGAt Republican plan all along to eventually get rid of the ACA and the fact an African-American man inspired it.

Who the fuck needs Health Insurance coverage they can afford anyway?

he has Obamacare, he says he has insurance from the ACA. To this day his car is plastered with Trump and
kill Obamacare stickers. If Trump kills the ACA and Medicaid, they will find a way to blame Democrats.

The most expensive most certainly does not equate to "the best". It might be the best if you're ultra rich and can afford exorbitant prices for every medication and procedure you need, but for the rest of us the high price of healthcare is a severely limiting factor.

I get that rates are going up. What about premium tax credits?

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5471281/aca-health-insurance-premiums-obamacare-bbb-kff

Both are citing this - https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/individual-market-insurers-requesting-largest-premium-increases-in-more-than-5-years/

There is apparently a set of tax credits that were enacted (am thinking under Biden) that expire at the end of this year (unless Congress extends them).



I am in the federal employees "FEHB" plan (as a retiree) so I don't know all the details about the ACA plans but IIRC when it was devised and tweaked, there were different levels, i.e., "bronze", "silver", and "gold" and it looks like the KFF article is suggesting that people in the higher tiers may end up dropping into lower ones in order to afford the new premiums, when the tax credits expire in addition to the premium increases.

There has been recent chatter from some GOP Senators about doing something about the tax credits (actually considering extending them due to the mid-terms) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143496895

Some more from the above-linked OP's article -

The Economist thinks that the number for people in the exchanges will have a much higher rate hike in store. About 64 million people are in exchanges and they are thinking 75% and up to 90% for rural people.
Of course the bill doesn't really kick in until after the mid-terms.
But it needs to be hammered every day until it does.

Obamacare Insurers Seek Double-Digit Premium Hikes Next Year
Some enrollees could be hit with increases of more than 20% because of federal changes and higher health expenses

By Anna Wilde Mathews

Updated July 18, 2025 10:28 am ET

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Insurers are seeking hefty 2026 rate increases for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans, the coverage known as Obamacare. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois wants a 27% hike, while its sister Blue Cross plan in Texas is asking for 21%. The largest ACA plans in Washington state, Georgia and Rhode Island are all looking for premiums to surge more than 20%.

............ About 24 million people have ACA plans.

At the request of The Wall Street Journal, the health-research nonprofit KFF analyzed the rate requests for the largest ACA plans by enrollment in 17 states where the insurers’ filings have already become public, as well as the District of Columbia. They showed that some of the biggest national ACA players, including Centene and Elevance Health, are seeking double-digit increases in several states. The Blue Cross & Blue Shield plans of Texas and Illinois are both owned by Health Care Service, a giant nonprofit.

Higher ACA premiums would hit consumers including Clare Forry, a 40-year-old resident of Arlington Heights, Ill., who has a Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois plan that currently costs about $590 a month. If her monthly payment rose above $700 next year, the cost would be “pretty hard to grasp,” said Forry, a retail-industry manager. “That’s some people’s mortgage payments.”


Most Obamacare enrollees’ monthly insurance bills will go up substantially next year because of reductions in federal subsidies that help pay for their coverage..............
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Many people will lose their healthcare altogether because they won't be able to afford it. They'll probably blame Biden.

Republicans would kill 100 people if it meant adding a penny to their bank balance.