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Panic tears through U.S. as health insurance costs spike (prospect.org)
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The end of expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act exchanges means more people will go without health insurance, workers, doctors, and researchers said.

Open enrollment is under way for 2026 insurance coverage, and millions of Americans are facing extreme sticker shock thanks to the end of expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies, which capped Obamacare premiums for a “benchmark” insurance plan at 8.5 percent of income. Twenty-two million people relied on that funding, at a cost of about $35 billion annually.

With the expanded subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, reverting back to a less generous subsidy level last in place in 2021, patients around the country are facing premium increases that are so extreme, they’re either reducing health insurance coverage or dropping it altogether. Some are facing price hikes many multiples higher than they paid last year; those whose costs only doubled told the Prospect they considered themselves lucky by comparison.

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

If someone punched you in the face you'd be allowed to fight back. If the government dooms you to economic death, you're supposed to just accept it. America is incredibly cruel...

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol, in American public schools they literally teach children from a young age that if you fight back against a bully you'll also be punished.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I did fight back against a bully in school when I was 17 and I got arrested. The school district tried to expel me.

I had citizenship status at the time. Otherwise I was probably vulnerable to deportation. (Potentially, idk how that timeline would look like, but it happened under trump term 1...) so it was kinda terrifying.

I have to thank my mom for natualizing and therefore I got citizenship status derived from it, and therefore I was safe against that possibility of deportation.

That incident was probably one of the many factors leading to my depression.

Anyways, I hated the school district, so I just got GED instead. Got accepted to college but I stuggled with it and withdrew.

I'm probably nearly finished with college by now if I didn't have depression.

Fuck this timeline. ACAB.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Public schools are weakening humans and indoctrinating our wise self-preservation instincts right out of us. Who runs public schools? The government. Why would the government want everyone to be non-confrontational doormats? Hmmm....

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Public Schools are for brainwashing.

Same with when I was in China. Same with when I was in the US.

Its all about government control. Manipulating people against each other, divide and conquer. Nationalism, getting people to hate others across borders based on lies.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assume some real tangible humans were behind these healthcare-cutting decisions. Real tangible humans are indeed punchable.

[–] witten@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The term you're looking for is social murder.