I need your help. Trump is taking my healthcare

In the coming months, my health insurance premium is going to spike.

By how much? I don’t know exactly, but it will be more than double. I buy coverage through Connecticut’s insurance exchange (Obamacare). In their “big, beautiful bill,” the Republicans in effect repealed the federal subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act. They are set to expire at year’s end, at which point I will face a kind of Sophie’s choice: Either I pay impossible rates every month or I just go without health insurance.

I won’t be alone. “Nearly all of the roughly 24 million Americans enrolled in healthcare coverage via the ACA exchanges will face massive premium hikes – in many cases, three and four times higher than what they’re paying right now,” Charles Gaba told me recently.

“Millions will be priced out of being able to afford coverage at all,” Charles said, “while most of the rest will have to either eat the higher premiums, downgrade to a lower-quality plan with higher deductibles, higher copays, a worse provider network or all of the above. Or they’ll have to move to non-ACA coverage via so-called ‘junk plans,’ which have few if any of the patient protections required by ACA plans.”

Millions will be priced out. That almost certainly includes me.

So I'm turning to you.

I'm not asking for charity. I want to earn your support. And, frankly, I already do. You're on my free list. Every weekday, I send an essay to your inbox with fresh insight about the events of the day. I'm asking for your financial contribution to this effort and in my time of need. My health insurance will be unsustainable unless I can get 100 new subscribers. That won't cover it all, just the added cost.

Join me if you can.

Here's the monthly option. Click here for just $6 a month! So cheap!

Here's the yearly option. Click here to save 17 percent off the monthly price! So good!

Thank you!