Millions at risk of losing health insurance after Trump's victory
Source: NBC News
Nov. 7, 2024, 4:22 PM EST
Millions of Americans risk losing subsidies next year that help them pay for health insurance following President-elect Donald Trumps election win and Republicans victory in the Senate.
The subsidies which expire at the end of 2025 came out of the 2021 American Rescue Plan, and increased the amount of assistance available to people who want to buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. The American Rescue Plan also broadened the number of people eligible for subsidies, extending them to many in the middle class.
The looming expiration date means that the incoming Congress and next president will need to decide whether to extend them something Trump and Republicans have already signaled they dont support, said Chris Meekins, a health policy research analyst at the investment firm Raymond James.
If Republicans end up winning the House, in addition to the Senate and White House, having a GOP sweep, I think the odds are less than 5% they get extended, said Meekins, who was a senior HHS official in Trumps first term. Even Democratic control of the House likely wont save the subsidies, he added.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/millions-risk-losing-health-insurance-trumps-victory-rcna179146
JohnSJ
(96,683 posts)and the rogan fan boys don't get sick anyway.
However, they will have made the 1% richest people even richer.
Ms. Toad
(35,560 posts)Like my daughter, who has $200,000 in medical expenses each and every year - on a $40,000 a year income, in years when she isn't hospitalized and forced to take time off without pay. She was hospitalized 5 times in the last 13 months.
So stop with this "they" crap.
AllyCat
(17,141 posts)Im sorry to hear about your daughters health struggles. It sounds like a nightmare and very frightening.
wolfie001
(3,751 posts)Please direct your anger at the proper people.
Ms. Toad
(35,560 posts)had no one to blame but themselves, he commented that a bunch of them didn't even bother to vote. But many did, and those who did vote for Harris, as opposed to Trump, Stein or not at all are blameless.
wolfie001
(3,751 posts)I'm moving on to the next challenge. Best of luck to you
C Moon
(12,584 posts)William Seger
(11,059 posts)... but fucking idiots is surely an over-represented subgroup.
MayReasonRule
(1,854 posts)There are two types of GOP members both of them criminal:
The Machiavellian
The Darwin Award Winners
Those that support the same are the same.
They're the same.
William Seger
(11,059 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,656 posts)Because they voted for a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist.
See easy.
tanyev
(44,606 posts)yardwork
(64,535 posts)Justice matters.
(7,556 posts)We know these wingnuts' type...
Lonestarblue
(11,868 posts)Anyone with pre- existing conditions will either pay higher costs or be rejected completely. Obamacare also has paid for most of the cost for Medicaid expansion. Red states will most likely reverse the expansion and shove millions of poor people off Medicaid.
Bengus81
(7,394 posts)Remember those Town Halls and how all of a sudden those Republicans in Congress didn't want to set any of those up anymore? The yelling and screaming and booing. I remember it WELL.
Ray Bruns
(4,656 posts)TurboDem
(277 posts)With a majority in the Senate and no John McCain to give a "thumbs down" it will be gone in 2025.
My new attitude after this election, and since I'm on Medicare is "Fuck em, I've got mine!" They FAed, now they're about to FO.
travelingthrulife
(819 posts)n/t
wolfie001
(3,751 posts)The nasty christo-fascists f6ckers
enid602
(9,064 posts)Dont forget Medicaid as well, which in turn will undercut Obamacare. These Trump voters thought the new regime will only affect others.
live love laugh
(14,454 posts)yardwork
(64,535 posts)StarryNite
(10,867 posts)you might pay less for a dozen eggs. At least until the immigrants have been sent away and the egg farmers don't have enough employees to run their farms.
The crazy price of eggs was brought about by avian flu in the US and Mexico. Had nothing to do with inflationary trends.
StarryNite
(10,867 posts)People starting buying chickens and building hen houses thinking that would provide cheap eggs for them. Really? How much did all of that cost them? And a few weeks later the price of eggs went down. Dumb people, so tired of dumb people.
NorCalBlue
(44 posts)You are 1000% correct, Enid. As a resident of a County known for egg production, Avian Flu driven egg loss had a domino effect on many other food products and industries.
Last year MILLIONS of chickens were culled due to a virus that our Country cannot vaccinate against due to international trade issues. Egg production reduction affected EVERY SINGLE FOOD/PRODUCT made with eggs. As a result, eggs and every single thing made with eggs, shot up. Take a moment DU readers to consider every product on the market that contains some amount of eggs, trace or otherwise.
Chicken manure also figures in. It is used in our nations Agricultural produce growth. California is a major organic chicken manure producer, and if manure isnt produced, organic or otherwise, other more expensive types are required and trucked in.
I could go on and on, delving into the minutia of egg reduction related domino effects, but I wont. Its too far reaching to tackle, but far reaching is exactly why Avian Flu effected our economy in an invisible way.
Thank you, Enid for mentioning this, because eggs prices themselves werent a figurative/political example of Republican inflation blaming. It was, and is, an epidemic driven problem that Trump will now inherit. Its simple science spilling over into economics, and when the word science is attached to anything, Republican voters vapor lock. This was actually a bigger deal than the rest of America realized, and the only reason I understand the nuances of this is because regardless of party, everyone in my county had to get educated real fast on what Avian Flu does to an economy.
ananda
(30,852 posts)They consider certain Trump messages that
appeal to them and block out everything else.
This election is going to a lesson in the school
of hard knocks for Trumpers (and for everyone
else too, and I mean everyone, no one excluded)!
yardwork
(64,535 posts)Every Trump voter seems to have had their own personal selfish fantasy about what he will do for them, while tuning out everything else he said.
ananda
(30,852 posts)They can't think outside that fantasy box, and like I said before,
there are going to be a lot of hard lessons in the school of
hard knocks.
Justice matters.
(7,556 posts)So from now own, they'll get "elect" row cuted... slowly but surely.
SamKnause
(13,836 posts)If they didn't vote for trump I am sorry for the hardships we all will be going through because of the trump cult.
I wish them nothing but hardship and pain.
They fought hard for this outcome and they deserve everything coming their way.
Zorro
(16,347 posts)and the hospitals will have to treat them. And who will pay that cost?
Phoenix61
(17,691 posts)With massive cuts to Medicaid/Medicare/ACA many hospitals will close. Rural areas have already lost hospitals and it will only get worse.
BradBo
(652 posts)republianmushroom
(17,838 posts)JohnSJ
(96,683 posts)late for some.
Scully
(80 posts).... that this isn't just about losing an ACA plan, but losing the protections that ACA granted to employer-sponsored plans.
Many, many people are going to have a rude awakening when the pre-existing condition exclusions come back, and people will no longer be able to get their conditions covered by insurance even if they still have access to coverage. Or when the lifetime limits caps come back, and insurance is able to say, sorry- you cost us too much, we don't have to pay your claims any longer through your employer sponsored plan.
But hey- cheap eggs!
Solly Mack
(92,933 posts)GoodRaisin
(9,601 posts)The last time they went after the ACA their concept of a plan drastically reduced the subsidies to the point that premiums would have become unaffordable again.
turbinetree
(25,344 posts)BannonsLiver
(18,086 posts)Best of luck
LudwigPastorius
(10,914 posts)They'll try to do away with the ACA entirely. (...and maybe finally succeed)
Anyone who gets their policy through the government marketplace can probably kiss their affordable insurance goodbye.
Bengus81
(7,394 posts)Those are both on the hit list and will be shit canned right along with the ACA. Then those billions of $$$ in the fund and the money no longer paid to subsidize the ACA can be funneled to the richest of the rich.
Everyone else who depends on those programs can go fuck themselves. People will be dying in the US faster than some third World Country.
I wish all this was just Trump blowhard BS as usual but he's out to destroy anything that Democrats put in place to help those who truly need it, even if it means going back to 1933 and FDR.
Hekate
(94,924 posts)Except I have a feeling that Trumps two vast propaganda machines (FOX and X) are going to start blaming Biden and all other Dems for all the nations woes in 3, 2, 1..
BigDemVoter
(4,550 posts)choices those fools made
.
Too bad THEY arent the only ones who will pay for this.
oasis
(51,723 posts)Billboards to follow.