ACA Insurers Propose Big Premium Hikes as Trump Policies take Hold

Friday, July 18, 2025

Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing their steepest premium increases since 2018 ...

Posted by retort at 11:42 AM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

People who get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act could soon see their monthly premiums sharply increase as subsidies expire and insurers propose a major premium hike for 2026.[image or embed]
-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Jul 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM

Comments

Won't be able to afford health care. RFKjr is a FRAUD

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-18 12:43 PM

Who else did you think was going to fund the tax cuts for billionaires? YOU ARE SUCKA.

#2 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-18 01:04 PM

Insurance companies hardest hit.

#3 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-07-18 01:19 PM

Insurance companies hardest hit.
#3 | Posted by visitor_

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-18 01:47 PM

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!
#4 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Was ACA meant to make insurance companies rich?

Insurer Stock Prices Soaring After Giant ACA Subsidies
paragoninstitute.org

And in another contradiction ... let me guess, you cheered when Luigi did what he did.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-18 01:55 PM

let me guess, you cheered when Luigi did what he did.
#5 | POSTED BY IAMRUNT

IAMRUNT cheered when his fellow MAGAt did this.

www.npr.org

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-18 02:01 PM

let me guess, you cheered when Luigi did what he did.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut

Luigi is a murderer. ...And so was Brian Thompson.

In his defense Luigi did bring some of the problems with the US healthcare system to everyone's attention. All Thompson did was deny care to help shareholders.

We have a corrupt, broken, expensive system. Most of the developed world has figured out how to improve healthcare for their citizens. The US system only helps to line the pockets of for-profit greed fkrs, while generally making actual healthcare inefficient and complicated.

The ACA did not make healthcare more affordable for most people, the Medicaid expansion did that. But the ACA was somewhat successful at making healthcare accessible for more people. Now thanks to MAGA and the Big BS Act, most gains that DID exist will be lost. And more people will needlessly go bankrupt and/or die. ...But I bet you're cheering for that.

#7 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-07-18 02:37 PM

Insurance companies hardest hit.

#3 | Posted by visitor_

And what happens when a corporation takes a financial hit? Do they cut executive pay, or raise prices on consumers?

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-18 02:46 PM

Obama signed the Affordable Care Act.

So Trumpy just signed the Unaffordable Care Act.

Now we finally know what Trumpy's "concept of a plan" was.

To somehow make Healthcare unaffordable again!!

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-18 03:28 PM

In America, healthcare is a business.
Never forget that.
It didn't and doesn't have to be that way.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-19 12:21 PM

Insurance is not health care. It's the preventer of health care.

#11 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-07-19 12:24 PM

"Insurance is...the preventer of health care."

The stupid, it burns!

#12 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-07-19 12:32 PM

Obviously you have no experience with health care and insurance or anyone that works in health care.

#13 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-07-19 12:44 PM

" Obviously you have no experience with health care and insurance or anyone that works in health care."

I was a Trustee of a multi-billion dollar Pension and Health Fund, after serving for over two decades on Health Insurance committees.

You were saying?

#14 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-07-19 05:44 PM

Insurance is not health care. It's the preventer of health care.

#11 | Posted by visitor_

Yeah which is why liberals want to get rid of it. Why do conservatives stand in the way?

#15 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-20 04:24 PM

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