Hey, remember when we weren’t allowed to call it Obamacare?
Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States
Health insurance prices for next year under the Affordable Care Act are now available in about a dozen states, giving Americans their first look at the sharp increases many will pay for coverage if Congress does not extend subsidies that have made some plans more affordable.
The annual enrollment period for Obamacare is expected to begin Nov. 1, but the costs for some Americans are becoming publicly available piecemeal through some state marketplaces. The federal website healthcare.gov, which includes 28 other state marketplaces, is slated to post prices before the end of October.
People shopping for coverage can now preview the costs they face from potentially expiring subsidies and sharply rising premiums in many markets, including California, New York, Nevada, Maryland and Idaho. Some consumers also found out that they would have fewer choices because their insurers dropped out of some markets for 2026.
Based on the newly posted information, a family of four making $130,000 in Maine would face an increase of $16,100 in annual premiums next year because they would no longer qualify for more generous subsidies, said Gideon Lukens, a health policy researcher for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which supports extending the subsidies.
Older people will also see sharp increases, according to his calculations. In Kentucky, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 per year could face an increase of $23,700 in annual premiums. In Nevada, a similar couple could pay an additional $18,100 in annual premiums, while in Minnesota, the cost might be $15,500 more and, in Maryland, an additional $13,700.
Wait, nothing blaming Republicans?
President Trump has also signaled some interest in making a deal. But since Democrats made the demand a centerpiece of shutdown politics, Republican congressional leaders have said they will not consider extending the subsidies as part of a short-term bill to fund the government.
Surveys by public pollsters and Republican firms have found that the subsidies are popular with voters. A recent poll from KFF found that 59 percent of Republicans favored an extension. But it would be expensive — costing around $350 billion over a decade, according to a recent estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. And conservative critics have assailed the generous subsidies as a handout to the insurance industry and an invitation for fraud.
Weird, I thought the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act would make it all less expensive?
Democrats were told this would happen from the get-go. And it got worse and worse. Maybe they should be thinking about ways to work with Republicans to actually make it affordable.
Hey, I was calling it Obaminablecare and Obysmalcare from the very beginning!
It’s not like no one told people what was going to happen.
Obumblecare was never meant to be anything more than a stepping stone to single payer, or, as some have called it, Medicare for All. Trouble is, anyone who calls it that has never actually been on Medicare, or they’d understand that that ain’t a great system, either. Yes, Medicare covers 80% of your hospital bills, leaving you with 20% you have to pay yourself. Part B, which is deducted from your Social Security, covers 80% of your medical office visits; it’s around $150 a month!
The rest of the plans you have to buy yourself, through private insurance providers. My health insurance was better, and less expensive, before retirement, before Medicare.
We could go to a form of real single-payer, but that would mean a huge increase in taxes, just like every other country which has it. Oh, you don’t have medical bills to pay when you go to the doctor or hospital or quackropractor, but you’ve been paying them all along, out of every paycheck, when the government sticks its grubby hands in your wallet, every f(ornicating) payday. And, of course, rather than paying the same as others, the more money you make, the more you pay for health care; it’s just another f(ornicating) welfare program, where people who work and produce wind up paying for the lazy scumbags who do not.
And, like every other single-payer country, health care is rationed, rationed through delay, as the “system” hopes that you’ll finally give up, or die, before your treatment.
I should have looked it up before posting the last. The Part B premium is $185 this year, and is projected to rise to $206 a month in 2026.
It was obvious from the start. Paying for more people to receive services would cost more. Adding more people who cannot pay will shift those costs to those who can pay. Nothing is free. All the subsidy did was hide the astronomical cost until after Biden was no longer in office. The higher cost of health care now is the predictable outcome of passing the Obamacare bill and all the waste, fraud, ad abuse built into it. But mostly it is the higher cost of providing more free stuff to more people.
Durring Trump’s first term he promised to give us TrumpCare. Why didn’t he ?
I’m the USA the #1 cause of bankruptcy is medical bills/healthcare costs.
Globally the USA has fallen to number 50 in life expectancy. Red States are killing us !!
Dana by lazy scumbags should I assume you mean children, aged, chronically ill, disabeled mentally or physically,like coal miners with black lung, you know people like that? Certainly you don’t mean all those military aged migrants that walked 2000 miles to in side the USA. I can’t see them being the ones that are driving up the cost of healthcare in the USA.
Should we do a poll on how many who list here are part of that expensive Medicare/Medicare program? I am a member but fortunately are in excellent health and take no prescription medications
I think every child in the USA even migrants, even juvenile delinquents deserves the best medical care available regardless of ability to pay.
Also lol should soy farmers lol (responsible for the forced f soy consumption of doing boys) have billions given to them because Trump shitcanned sales to China ?
Dana I assume that by lazy scumbags you mean children, aged, disabled,chronically ill,
“Illegals not the ones driving up healthcare costs..”
Johnny, how do you figure that? They come and receive medical care without paying any taxes. Quite simple, really. And even if they weren’t driving up costs,it wouldn’t matter anyway-they’re here illegally.