Posted on 11/01/2025 6:37:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Stacy Cox used one word repeatedly as she described how she felt after learning her ACA premium could jump over 300% without the enhanced tax credits: "devastating."
"I don't know if I've ever cried opening a letter from an insurance or before, but it happened this time," she told ABC News.
Cox's premium this year has been $495.32 for coverage for her and her husband. Without the credit in 2026, she was informed that it's increasing to $2,168.68.
"It's devastating because we can't afford that," she said. "Just that bill right there, that's more than our mortgage, our insurance, most of our food. That's what we're paying per month to live. We can't afford to double what it costs for us to live just to have health insurance."
"This will devastate us if we tried to pay it," she added.
Millions across the country are discovering just how much their plans will cost as open enrollment for Affordable Care Act insurance plans began on Nov. 1. Enrollment lasts through Jan. 15, 2026.
For Cox and her husband, who live in Kanab, Utah, even if the tax credit were to be extended, they'd still see the premium increase to $753.68. It would be a hit to their budget, but one they would take to keep insurance.
"It's already going to be hard for us to have a 52% increase on our premium, and that's if the credits are extended," she said. "But we will do it so that we can have health coverage."
Cox is a professional photographer and she and her husband, 55, have been enrolled in "Obamacare" since 2022.
For now, she's holding on to hope that the tax credits are extended and will reenroll in her plan so she doesn't miss open enrollment.
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Exactly as was predicted...which the Left called “right wing lies!” “Republican lies!” , etc.
“I do not understand why Republicans do not want the poor and the sick to be able to get healthcare” Obama said vs. actually responding to the valid concerns and criticisms of the legislation.
Why would anyone ever trust Obama for anything?
Pfft. We live in Upstate New York and for coverage for my husband and I even though I am semi-retired and run my husband’s very small HVAC business I was paying well over $1,100 a month for basically catastrophic hospitalization. Everything else was extra.
If she’s working as a part-time photographer I’d say that she needs to get a full-time job and it didn’t really say I don’t believe what her husband did so they must be low wage earners. Obamacare has always sucked.
Amen.
The administration really needs to start 1099ing housing subsidy recipients. That should cut down on the post January 30th Carnival Cruises.
If breast cancer is the cause of the jump, that will have nothing to do with subsidies.
It also can’t be true because Obamacare forbids companies from pricing on pre existing conditions.
And lastly, and I may not have this right, the current situation is NOT that the subsidies are going to expire. It is that an increase in subsidies that were added to the previous subsidies for Covid . . . are going to expire. So there will still be the 2019 + inflation subsidies present.
The article looks bogus.
it was always a scam. Always.
“that’s more than our mortgage”
You have a house?
You don’t need the Welfare of Goobermint subsidies like Obamacare Giveaways.
I’m just guessing her insurance was always high, its just the subsidies (other folks money) took care of most of it. Now that its gone she has to cover all of her insurance premium out of her own pocket.
..... I mean ..... Obama and the Democrats would never Lie to you would they?????
...... So go ahead Liberal Leaches ..... Conservatives warned you all about this ..... So Embrace the Suck!!!
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I would rather crawl the Appalachian trail on my hands and knees over broken glass, than book a carnival or any cruise line passage.
Catastrophic coverage plus Direct Patient Care ($70.00/month per person age <65 in my area).
Actually I think they are quoting the cost for the yEar. At least it sounds like it the way it’s written. And I’ve seen other articles who have the same type of figures but they have actually said that’s the cost for the whole year. If that’s for a year why the heck is she whining? That’s CHEAP!!!
“The best way to triple any cost for any goods or services is to have the government subsidize them.”
And have the government force you to have those goods or services.
The RATS own all of the 0bamacare act! The Republicans didn’t cast one vote for this huge f*ckup.
If you enter into Medicare and did not have evidence of current and past credible Healthcare coverage, you pay a fine every month for the rest of your life, taken directly out of your social security benefit. And Republicans celebrated the end of the “Mandate”, claiming that would kill off Obamas ACA. It did not. It got much worserer.
Yep. Same boat here.
Scam, O-BodyMortgage. ✖️🪨
Wanna fix the ACA problems? Put every federal employee on it, as well as political beasts. If the Beltway bureaucrats had to navigate and use Obamacare, it would be scrapped and replaced before noon on day #1.
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