Mission almost accomplished Republicans. Now on to Social Security,Medicare and Medicaid

People can’t afford the rates now so they are dropping their coverage. The answer is to increase those rates higher. I must be missing something important. Obviously I’m not insurance CEO material.

pay CEOs *checks notes* (shit, that's a lot of money) that much. Plus, do you know how much it costs to train AI to deny your claims?

Won't someone PLEASE think of the poor health insurance companies.

Everyone knew when it was passed when they were going to expire. I believe the original subsidies are still in place.

Go talk to the Republicans and the SCOTUS. They fucked things up.

From the OP's link, repeated for convenience of reference
https://kffhealthnews.org/insurance/priced-out-obamacare-affordable-care-act-aca-premium-increases-peterson-kff/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Just so people are aware of this death spiral dynamic. This has been much discussed as part of the reason for the large 2026 increases.



With or without AI, this has long concerned me -- doctors upping the diagnosis and billing code to get a larger reimbursement. Doesn't that result in a person's medical record looking a lot worse than their true medical condition? I've seen a lot of discussion about the upcoding, but I haven't seen any of how it might result in a false impression of the person's condition that can mislead future providers into prescribing wrong treatments.

The ACA solidifies the hold insurance companies have over our healthcare. (It would have been much better with a public option.)

I have an ACA plan. It's fairly good for me, but expensive to administrate.

The total monthly premium for my middle-of-the-road "silver" plan for one person is about $1500.

I pay about $180 for the premium. The ACA pays more than $1300.

On top of that, for me, there are ample deductibles and co-pays. The prescription plan is so bad, I buy my scripts without it at costplusdrugs.com.

There's got to be a better way -- one that actually lowers the cost of providing medical care. The way it all works now, we need the ACA to help pay for our premiums. But, it's just throwing money at the problem.

It's literally right in the name. I remember when it was enacted that it was going to be so affordable that the young and uninsured couldn't wait to sign up for it. How it was going to lower costs annually by $2500 for the average person.

Also, we are the only country where people go bankrupt because of healthcare debt.

Is there a relationship between these? I think so...

The solution IMO is to enact single payer healthcare. Just like the rest of the world.

Many other countries have private insurance companies, but regulate them, subsidize them and generally use them to their people's advantage instead of letting the companies dictate the terms of their people's health.

helping callers sign up for the ACA. I liked it. I worked four hours a day, five days a week, and got to work from home after Covid hit. I have always had social worker type jobs, and this was a good one. I retired when my sister’s cancer returned and I wanted to be with her while she went through treatment. She died anyway, a week after she got home, in March 2024. 😢

I really need another retirement job, because I was not financially ready to live on my small retirement income. I felt like I was helping people in that job, but after fuckface and his cronies started messing with the subsidies, I couldn’t bring myself to go back. I knew I’d spend most of my time talking to angry, disappointed people this time around.

How I hate repukes. They are the reason we can’t have nice things.

insurance in the first place, but Americans have been too brainwashed for too long into believing the patchwork system we have is both normal and desirable.

For years now, we’ve only had two companies offering health plans on the marketplace. Blue Cross of MT and Pacific Source. BC didn’t want to small business or individual market and they priced their plans accordingly. Pacific Source is ending their marketplace plans at the end of this year leaving only BC. Essentially, we’ve gone from zero competition to a monopoly. BC won’t reduce the price of their plans for marketplace customers, why would they? Pacific currently has 14,000 groups in Montana. GROUPS, not customers. Thousands of Montanans will not have insurance at the end of the year. This will be an unmitigated disaster.