[1]NNU - Medicare for All!



In less than 90 days, millions of people across the United States will
receive bad news: their health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs
are dramatically increasing.

[ [link removed] ]The American Prospect: Countdown Clock Begins for Giant Health
Insurance Premium Increases. In around 90 days, millions of Americans will
learn about out-of-pocket cost hikes of more than 75 percent on average.

These price hikes will affect 24 million people currently enrolled in
Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange plans.^1 You’re probably wondering,
why?

When the Inflation Reduction Act was passed in 2022, it included increased
subsidies for middle-class Americans who purchase health coverage through
the ACA marketplaces. While these subsidies lowered premiums for 92% of
enrollees in marketplace plans, the policy is set to sunset at the end of
this year.^2

At the same time, President Trump and congressional Republicans’ recently
passed budget bill includes the largest cut ever to Medicaid and Medicare.
The latest estimates predict that up to 17 million people will lose their
health insurance altogether, but for those who keep their ACA plans, they
can expect to pay on average 75 percent more, making health care even less
affordable than it already is.^3

These are the highest health insurance premium hikes since 2018.

This is what happens when those in power decide to undermine our federal
health care programs with historic cuts, all for the sake of giving
millionaires and billionaires more tax breaks.

It doesn’t have to be this way – not if we build the political will to
ditch this broken, for-profit health care system and replace it with
Medicare for All: a single-payer, universal health care system that
slashes administrative costs and guarantees care for all, regardless of
ability to pay.

As we keep up our fight to hold Republicans and the Trump administration
accountable for these cruel cuts, we are also working to strengthen and
expand our movement to pass Medicare for All.

[ [link removed] ]To learn more about these impending price hikes and what caused them,
read and share this article from The American Prospect.

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In solidarity,

Nurses' Campaign to Win Medicare for All

 

Sources:
1 - [ [link removed] ]The American Prospect
2 - [ [link removed] ]Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
3 - [ [link removed] ]The American Prospect



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