Look at What Trump Did to ACA Premiums in Idaho

Friday, October 17, 2025

About 25,000 Idahoans are likely to drop their coverage for next year when enhanced subsidies expire.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 11:32 PM | 44 COMMENTS | permalink

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt ... Bob McMichael, 63, and his wife, Leslie, 62, are retired and make about $42,000 a year. They currently pay $51 a month for their ACA plan. Late last month, they got a notice that their monthly premium would increase to $2,232 next year without the subsidies.

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... Bob McMichael, 63, and his wife, Leslie, 62, already know they won't. Both are retired and make about $42,000 a year. They currently pay $51 a month for their ACA plan. Late last month, they got a notice that their monthly premium would increase to $2,232 next year without the subsidies. ...

Yet Pres Trump wants to preserve the tax cuts to billionaires.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-17 03:52 AM

Dummkopf Trumpf receives world class medical treatment at WRAMC and his attending physician is a USN Captain and osteopathist specializing in emergency and tactical medicine. Members of Congress have a USN Rear Admiral treating them at a modern, well-furnished clinic inside Capitol Hill.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-17 04:16 AM

Why does the wealthiest Country on the planet seem to be unable to provide affordable healthcare for its citizens?

Has "healthcare for a profit," a.k.a. Capitalism, failed the Country in this critical area?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-17 04:26 AM

It's the "healthcare industry."
And that's why it has and will continue to hurt and kill people.
Lots of money to be made.
Casualties are just a cost of doing business.
It's about the bottom line and the squeeze.
And it ain't the fault of your nurse practitioner.
Not by a long shot.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-17 05:09 AM

Thune and Johnson had more to do with it than old pudding brained Pedo 47.

Bob McMichael, 63, and his wife, Leslie, 62, already know they won't. Both are retired and make about $42,000 a year. They currently pay $51 a month for their ACA plan. Late last month, they got a notice that their monthly premium would increase to $2,232 next year without the subsidies.

They got what they voted for.....tax cuts for billionaires and bankruptcy for farmers and the middle class. Here is their chance to show us how they pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

The GOP serves the 1% only and the big ----------- bill proves it.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-17 07:34 AM

Guess so many are not aware that it was the dems that set the COVID subsidiary to sunset this year - NOT Trump. Also, those prices were already rising before COVID hit.

A point to ponder:

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#6 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-17 12:00 PM

Nice ----------.

www.politico.com

#7 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-17 12:07 PM

MSGT can't think. He can only Facebook Meme.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-17 12:08 PM

MSGT can't think. He can only Facebook Meme.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-17 12:08 PM | Reply | Flag: YEP

MSTRBTR is a government dependent who has always relied on government handouts to pay for his medical. He has nothing meaningful to add to the conversation because all his working adult life... he avoided working in the "free-market" and manipulated the government into taking care of him... and his family... for his entire life.

#9 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-10-18 02:43 AM

It is a good thing that Idahoans live off the land. They are purely self-sustaining mountain men with no reliance on the liberal world. One native Idahoan I know travels long distances in his super duty diesel to forage for his own food at the town's meals on wheels program.

#10 | Posted by dragfreedrift at 2025-10-18 05:57 AM

Roadkill is always an option in MAGAtlandia.
Endorsed by Michelin's outdoors star bestower Kennedy Junior.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-18 06:23 AM

National Health Care divides the trustworthy industrial countries from those countries, actually, that country, that cannot be trusted as they harm their own citizens. We are the only industrialized nation not to have some sort of national health care for all.

#12 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-10-18 07:44 AM

They're gonna go after Footposer next for soliciting the murder of a Jewish journalist.

#13 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-18 09:10 AM

"Yet Pres Trump wants to preserve the tax cuts to billionaires.
#1 | Posted by LampLighter"

And he wants to send $80 Billion to Argentina to prop up a fellow dictator's economy.

#14 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-10-18 10:58 AM

I guess GOP voters on Obamacare are getting a look at the healthcare plan Der Dotard and his acolytes have been promising for the past ten years. I hope they like what they voted for, because no one does ...

#15 | Posted by catdog at 2025-10-18 11:09 AM

" I guess GOP voters on Obamacare are getting a look at the healthcare plan Der Dotard"

The triple-digit premium increases are so bad, Trump will have to release the Epstein Files for cover.

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-18 11:17 AM

Someone might explain this ...

Biden and Elite Democrats pushed ACA tax credits to expire in 2025. Why not make them perm? Because the costs via the CBO made the debt explode, more than it is currently.

Now they are about to expire, and its Trumps fault?

I don't understand this logic, its Pelosi's fault for not making the credit permanent.

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-18 11:18 AM

he avoided working in the "free-market" and manipulated the government into taking care of him... and his family... for his entire life.
#9 | POSTED BY RIGHTISTRITE

So, aren't us Liberals supportive of government employees?

#18 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-18 11:20 AM

Idahoans don't need health insurance; all the hospitals and clinics are gonna shut down anyway.

#19 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-10-18 11:21 AM

Bob McMichael, 63, and his wife, Leslie, 62, are retired and make about $42,000 a year. They currently pay $51 a month for their ACA plan. Late last month, they got a notice that their monthly premium would increase to $2,232 next year without the subsidies.

Damn ... PEDO47Care is expensive.

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-18 11:22 AM

" Bob McMichael, 63, and his wife, Leslie, 62, are retired and make about $42,000 a year."

Then they're eligible for subsidies. Unless that's $42K apiece.

Eligibility for couples was below $62K initially, and has risen with inflation since then.

Also ... what kind of stupid fkkks retire in their early 60s with so little money?!?

#21 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-18 11:28 AM

" Guess so many are not aware that it was the dems that set the COVID subsidiary to sunset this year - NOT Trump."

And Republicans wrote tax giveaways to billionaires to sunset ... but the Republicans voted to extend them, so ...

... clearly the folks in power can do what they want. If Trump wanted to continue the subsidies, Republicans could do it the same way they extended tax cuts.

You've got all three branches of government. It's time for The Party of Responsibility to take some responsibility.

#22 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-18 11:33 AM

I guess GOP voters on Obamacare are getting a look at the healthcare plan Der Dotard and his acolytes have been promising for the past ten years.
~RatCat

You aren't too bright in the game theory domain.

Why would the Republicans ever fix something the Elite Democrats broke. Dems thought they could just keep piling this credit on no matter the cost, and never thought about the day the Republicans can use it to their advantage. Blaming Republicans won't go anywhere with the people.

Dems should have fixed it when Biden came into office, but they just decided more money was the answer.

Sad times for your grandchildren.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-18 11:37 AM

Idahoans don't need health insurance; all the hospitals and clinics are gonna shut down anyway.
#19 | POSTED BY HORSTNGRABEN

Why? Is everything in Idaho run by the government?

#24 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-18 11:38 AM

" Why would the Republicans ever fix something the Elite Democrats broke."

Because they're in power.

Trump talked about his plan, coming out in two weeks. Remember? Better care, for lower prices.

Of course, that was eight years ago.

Trump has failed on both fronts.

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-18 11:41 AM

Is everything in Idaho run by the government?

It's obvious ------------ china man story is bullsheeot because he'd never pass the civics exam.

#26 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-10-18 12:04 PM

I don't understand this logic

#17 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

This is the most correct statement you've posted here this month. Maybe ever.

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-18 12:34 PM

Why? Is everything in Idaho run by the government?

#24 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

It's a red state.

So it's full of people who hate it but use it more than your average blue state.

#28 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-18 12:36 PM

Sounds like Obamacare has always sucked but now people will finally realize it after the government hid how much it sucked for a decade or so.

#29 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-10-18 11:32 PM

@#29 ... Sounds like Obamacare has always sucked ...

How so?

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-18 11:38 PM

How so?

It's nowhere near as good as Lewzer's bigger, better, cheaper, Concept of a Plan.

#31 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-18 11:41 PM

@#17 ... Now they are about to expire, and its Trumps fault? ...

The implication in your current trolling alias' comment seems to be that the expiration is A Bad Thing and that Pres Trump is being blamed for that Bad Thing.

So, if it seems to be such A Bad Thing, why doesn't Pres Trump work to reverse the action?

I mean, your current trolling alias even seems to indicate that Pres Trump should take action because the expiration is bad..

So, why hasn't Pres Trump acted?

#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-18 11:43 PM

@#31 ... It's nowhere near as good as Lewzer's bigger, better, cheaper, Concept of a Plan....

You mean, these promises?

Candidate Trump on healthcare:

May 21, 2015
I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

Sept 25, 2015
Everybody's got to be covered.

Feb 17, 2016
We're going to have great plans. They're going to be much less expensive and they're going to be much better.

Oct 25, 2016
You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it is going to be so easy.

Nov 13, 2016
It will be better healthcare, much better for less money. Not a bad combination.

"I'm not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid."
-- Trump to the Daily Signal in May 2015

"We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in February 2016

Pres-elect Trump on healthcare:

"We're going to have insurance for everybody ... There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us."
-- Pres-elect Trump to the Washington Post in January 2017

Pres Trump on healthcare:

"Our healthcare plan will lower premiums & deductibles -- and be great healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in May 2017

#33 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-18 11:47 PM

You mean, these promises?

Yeah. Any day now...

#34 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-18 11:49 PM

@#34

Paula Cole - Where Have All The Cowboys Gone (1996)
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Lyrics excerpt...

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...[Verse 1]
Oh, you get me ready
In your '56 Chevy
Why don't we go sit down in the shade?
Take shelter on my front porch
The dandelion sun scorched
Would you like a glass of cold lemonade?

[Pre-Chorus]
I will do the laundry
If you pay all the bills

[Chorus]
Where is my John Wayne?
Where is my prairie song?
Where is my happy ending?
Where have all the cowboys gone?

[Verse 2]
Why don't you stay the evening?
Kick back and watch the TV
And I'll fix a little something to eat
Oh, I know your back hurts
From working on the tractor
How do you take your coffee, my sweet?

[Pre-Chorus]
I will raise the children
If you pay all the bills

[Chorus]
Where is my John Wayne?
Where is my prairie song?
Where is my happy ending?
Where have all the cowboys gone?
...

#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-18 11:56 PM

Sometimes I have to wonder if Pres Trump's MAGA supporters even realize what Pres Trump's policies are doing to them.

They seem to me to be so swept up in the adulation of Pres Trump that they don't even understand how Pres Trump may be undermining them for the benefit of the uber-wealthy.

Silverchair - Abuse Me (1997)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
[Verse 1]
Need to ask a question
Calling out my name
Nothing seems to bother
Wish I had a clue

[Pre-Chorus]
C'mon - abuse me more, I like it

[Verse 2]
Well, I don't think you like me
Well, I hate you as well
No one seems to like you
Wish I couldn't tell

[Chorus]
C'mon - abuse me more, I like it
C'mon - keep talking, 'cause it's true
C'mon - abuse me more, I like it
C'mon - keep talking, 'cause it's true
...

#36 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-19 12:04 AM

@#31 ... It's nowhere near as good as Lewzer's bigger, better, cheaper, Concept of a Plan....

This was all bait and switch, its how Trump rolls, how do you guys continually get caught up in his words. Only follow his deeds.

#37 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-19 12:46 AM

@#31 ... It's nowhere near as good as Lewzer's bigger, better, cheaper, Concept of a Plan. ...

Yeah, and how has Pres Trump delivered upon those promises he made?

Pres Trump seems to proffer many solutions, but does not seem to implement any of those proposed solutions.

Yet the MAGA faithful still seem to believe his every word.

#38 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-19 01:10 AM

Hell, the last time my insurance payments went up, it was a $200 increase. From $500 a month to $700.

I see nothing devastating being reported in this article, yet this is one of the key reasons the government is currently shut down.

#39 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-10-19 04:25 AM

"I mean, your current trolling alias even seems to indicate that Pres Trump should take action because the expiration is bad."

My personal opinion is that these silly, COVID-era subsidies should go away. According to polls, 87% of the population sees it differently.

Of course, I don't think that 87% would want to see a tax increase in order to sustain the subsidies. USans don't like taxes.

#40 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-10-19 04:28 AM

" I see nothing devastating being reported in this article"

"Rein [Nothing]" was, interestingly enough, the entry French king Louis XVI made in his diary on July14, 1789, the day a mob stormed the Bastille, kicking off the French Revolution.

#41 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-19 06:17 AM

Only follow his deeds.

#37 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Most of us have. That's why we knew not to vote for him.

The people who need your unsolicited advise are the morons who still support him.

#42 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-19 09:43 AM

The dems, and their behavior today is absolutely no different than those in the 80s.

https://www.tiktok.com/@suzely819/video/7520309414360845598?lang=en

#43 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-19 10:26 AM

AGAIN, it was the dems who set for hte subsidies to 'sunset' in 2025 those - NOT Trump. They are/were established due COVID, and that is no longer applicable.

#44 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-19 02:23 PM

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