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riversedge

(70,259 posts) Wed Oct 18, 2017, 09:27 AM Oct 2017

Thousands of Mississippians at risk of skyrocketing health care premiums under #TrumpCare

Thousands of Mississippians at risk of skyrocketing health care premiums

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2017/10/17/thousands-mississippians-risk-skyrocketing-health-care-premiums/767888001/

Anna Wolfe, The Clarion-Ledger Published 3:52 p.m. CT Oct. 17, 2017 | Updated 4:09 p.m. CT Oct. 17, 2017

For some Mississippians, the American Health Care Act would mean an increase in tax credits. For others, it would mean a decrease. Wochit
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Where will they go for insurance?

"I don't have an answer for that," Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said Monday. He approved the insurance companies' 47 percent premium increase for Health Care Marketplace plans two weeks ago, after having predicted Trump's decision.

Under the ACA, the federal government paid cost-sharing subsidies to insurance companies to help lower deductibles and co-pays for consumers. Insurers are still required to provide the discount, but without the federal subsidy, they will have to significantly raise premiums to make up the loss.
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If the subsidies are extended, premiums in Mississippi will automatically drop 20 percent, Chaney said.............................

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Thousands of Mississippians at risk of skyrocketing health care premiums under #TrumpCare (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2017 OP

Mississippi, voted Trump 3-2: 80% of folks who receive #ACA coverage with subsidies riversedge Oct 2017 #1

Well, hey, good luck . . . hatrack Oct 2017 #2

can't shed a tear for those who live there and voted for trump beachbum bob Oct 2017 #3

I have sympathy for the people who voted Bettie Oct 2017 #4

riversedge

(70,259 posts)

1. Mississippi, voted Trump 3-2: 80% of folks who receive #ACA coverage with subsidies

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Oct 18, 2017, 09:31 AM

Oct 2017

#Trumpcare will fail them

.......In Mississippi, a state that went for Trump 3-2, 80 percent of folks who receive coverage through the insurance exchange benefit from the subsidy.

Mitchell said folks who fall off the marketplace are likely to become uninsured, which puts them at risk not only health-wise, but economically.

"So many families in Mississippi are on the edge of poverty and just trying to achieve economic independence," Mitchell said. "One instance of having an injury is enough to put someone, a family in bankruptcy. That's one impact on Mississippians I don't think gets a lot of attention."

hatrack

(59,588 posts)

2. Well, hey, good luck . . .

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Oct 18, 2017, 09:38 AM

Oct 2017

You get what you vote for.

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

3. can't shed a tear for those who live there and voted for trump

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Oct 18, 2017, 09:38 AM

Oct 2017

now they will feel the pain I am sure

Bettie

(16,112 posts)

4. I have sympathy for the people who voted

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Oct 18, 2017, 09:46 AM

Oct 2017

for Clinton.

The people who voted for that creature roosting in the White House?

Well, they voted for this, so I can't find a lot of room for sympathy. It wasn't a secret plan and they let their hatred win over the well being of themselves and their families.

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