Millions More Americans Uninsured After Lapse Of Premium Subsidies
Source: Huff Post
Mar 19, 2026, 06:00 PM EDT | Updated 10 hours ago
Millions of Americans have lost health insurance after lawmakers let enhanced federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans expire following last year’s government shutdown battle, a study released Thursday found. About 1 in 10 Americans who were enrolled in an ACA plan last year now have no health coverage, according to surveys by the health care research nonprofit KFF. That amounts to around 2 million people.
“The prices are simply too high,” a 34-year-old Texas man who dropped coverage told researchers, saying his premiums would have been $800 a month for himself and his partner. “I don’t think we could afford our mortgage if I had to pay for health insurance.”
Among those who reenrolled in the ACA marketplace, 80% said their premiums, deductibles or co-pays have increased from last year. About half of enrollees characterize their costs as “a lot higher.” A majority of returning enrollees say they already have or will soon be cutting back on food and basic household supplies to afford their ACA plans this year.
That finding coincides with other research released last week that more than 80 million Americans ― about one-third of the country ― make daily trade-offs to afford health care, including by including rationing prescriptions, borrowing money, skipping meals, driving less and cutting back on utilities.
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Link to REPORT - https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/a-follow-up-survey-of-aca-marketplace-enrollees/
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The cited KFF article has this:
While very few Democratic 2025 Marketplace enrollees blame their own party (3%) for the expiration of the enhanced tax credits, three in ten Republicans, including two in ten MAGA-supporting Republicans, place the most blame on either President Trump or Republicans in Congress.
https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/a-follow-up-survey-of-aca-marketplace-enrollees/
courtesy of the "pro-life Christian" party.....no money for health, but plenty for bombs 
They have never stopped trying to repeal it or gut it since 2010. 
... and if bad things do happen to them, that's just god's will.
Doctors don't know anything, it's all a scam. The know somebody who cured their cancer with horse medicine and prayer.
In addition, they don't want pay for the health care of brown people, gay people, and most especially trans people. "Those people" shouldn't get any of their insurance or tax dollars.
And who knows, they themselves might be tax paying billionaires someday!
It really is that stupid. Anti-intellectualism and bigotry are tradition in the U.S.A..
...Oh Me.. 