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

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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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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

www.politico.com

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

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

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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