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ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year

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129 points geox | 3 comments | 18 Jul 25 13:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source
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ceejayoz ◴[18 Jul 25 13:59 UTC] No.44604713[source]▶
> Now that those subsidies are going away for next year, premiums are going to spike. For example, if someone paid $60 a month for their health insurance this year, they might be looking at $105 a month next year.

I was on the exchanges, unsubsidized, until this year. Last year's premium went from $3,000/month to $3,600/month. I had to buckle and get on a company plan with less coverage this year.

Meanwhile, every other piece of spare real estate in town is a new medical facility. Urgent cares, palatial orthopedic facilities… There's a crash coming.

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1. DennisP ◴[18 Jul 25 14:26 UTC] No.44604986[source]▶
We're likely to lose a lot of rural hospitals due to Medicaid cuts. We might need those new urban facilities, as those patients who do have insurance travel to the places still open.
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2. analog31 ◴[18 Jul 25 14:31 UTC] No.44605041[source]▶
What I read is that the big beautiful bill includes subsidies to keep those hospitals open, just not for them to treat patients.
3. giantg2 ◴[18 Jul 25 22:09 UTC] No.44610325[source]▶
The medicaid reimbursement rates are so low that hospitals have been closing anyways. This might speed it up, but the outcome was already in motion.