@legaldad: Replying to @Reaper_in_Az My ACA insurance costs are going way up. I’ve never received a subsidy. #news #insurance

buckfifty98 🇺🇸 :

I think hospitals need to all be non-profit again. I think it was Reagan that changed it. Something has gone fundamentally wrong with healthcare and its taken decades to get here. ACA didn't change any of the fundamentals of the business of heathcare, and now vulture capitalists seem to be picking at the carcass of the american system.

Floridaman123 :

The Obama idea for affordable health was a brilliant one and would have worked if all enrolled. I honestly believe it was harmed by insurance companies that had profits reduced from it

yerunclewillie :

I found a lot of people who hold the same opinion of the commenter are misinformed on the ACA, and assume everybody was receiving some sort of subsidy when they purchased their insurance. They really just have no idea what the ACA did and does.

AMC :

Going up because so many are losing their coverage or cannot afford it.

steve46202 :

Costs are going up because subsidies went away and the pool of customer shrank. There are fewer people to share the cost of expensive members.

No kings :

For whatever reason: ceo of insurance company needs a new yacht

Ben Granquist :

That house in Aspen isn’t going to buy itself.

gene64gu6ui :

Calling inflated U.S. chargemaster rates and private insurer overhead "full cost" ignores that Americans pay double per capita compared to other developed nations for equivalent care. It is not baseline cost; it is administrative bloat and monopoly pricing. Instead of fair pricing, we fund hundreds of thousands of administrators whose primary job is finding billing codes that charge $100 for a single aspirin, $800 in facility fees just to hand a newborn to the mother, and hundreds of millions in lobbying to keep the grift legal. And let's not forget the blatant conflict of interest where mega-insurers now own the PBMs, the specialty pharmacies, and even manufacturing subsidiaries, routinely sidelining cheaper generics to protect their rebate kickbacks. No, "full price" is nothing more than corporate extraction and complicit apologists stomping on the gas to protect inflated equity. Executives borrow against their shares with tax-free loans, meaning any dip risks a margin call. The more they leverage, the more desperate they are to pump the stock price. The only way to sustain that game is demanding perpetual, exponential growth on basic human survival, which is by all financial and mathematical logic completely impossible. "Full cost" is just the price tag of protecting their monopoly. TLDR: You could order your medication straight from an overseas pharmacy, pay an individual to personally fly it first class to your front door, and it would still often be cheaper than what your U.S. insurance conglomerate demands.

Bobby :

I was very appreciative to get over a $1,000 off my monthly premiums in 2024, I still paid over $600

Mom :

It is really getting out of hand. My adult daughter (with mental health diagnoses) was cut from Medicaid this year. I am on Medicare and my Part D Prescription plan is going up from $151.00 a month to $260.00 a month in January.

Magzz61 :

Justanothercatmom :

We have private insurance through my husbands job and our costs are going up next year. [Snicker]

Richard P686 :

The subsidies are actually the point of the act for a substantial portion of people on the ACA, depending on income, family size, etc.

Groundhog :

If only Congress would restore the penalties for not having insurance, so the risk is better spread I’m sure it would be cheaper.

Cookie Carol :

Those subsidies were basically federal payments to the insurance companies (not to the public) to offset their costs, so premiums could remain lower for people. When those payments stop, insurers usually have to raise premiums. They could have passed to continue these subsidies but the billionaires needed another yacht. 😞😞😞

Mrs Roofus :

Insurance should’ve never ever ever been allowed a seat at the table when figuring out the ACA. That was Obama’s biggest mistake. Insurance drove up the cost and everybody is paying the price.

💙Ronnie2u💙🇺🇲🆘️ :

You do Charity Flights to humanly transport PETS to new homes, or similar ✌️

StockAndBonds :

They should make Google for maga.

Brunette :

Never understood why people don’t google before they give a comment

GoBlueinOak :

regardless, god forbid we provide some people who makes less w/ subsidies to afford insurance. only absolute sociopaths have an issue with it.

HanShotFirst :

They assume because they are ass. 👍😁

Cad Bane :

Crazy they prefer to defend and pay corporations that gouge people deny benefits to sick people yet it’s the best country in the world

Lois :

👍🏻🥰