"Increasingly Republican" South Florida could be hardest hit by expiring ACA / ObamaCare tax credits.

[Miles Archer]

Once a volatile swing state, Florida has become increasingly Republican in the last few years. Former President Barack Obama won Florida's electoral votes in both 2008 and 2012, but in 2024, Donald Trump defeated Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 14 percent in the Sunshine State.

"If the extra subsidies that help Americans pay for Obamacare insurance plans expire at the end of the year as expected," Mazzei reports, "the most intense reverberations will be felt in South Florida, the country's top market for the coverage. As many as a third of the 4.7 million Floridians on Affordable Care Act plans could drop them next year because of the higher costs, according to some estimates."

The Times reporter cites specific examples of Floridians who could be feeling a lot of pain in 2026.

"Françoise Cham, who is 63 and self-employed in the Miami suburbs, hopes she will be able to afford coverage until she can sign up for Medicare at 65," Mazzei notes. "Heather Slivko-Bathurst, 37, expects to have to switch her family in Key West to the skimpier coverage offered through her job at a boating company. Lorraine Avila, a 46-year-old housekeeper in Miami, thinks she is likely to give up coverage altogether, which terrifies her."

https://www.rawstory.com/maga-2674232704/

[markodochartaigh]

1. When people are hungry, when they have health problems

and cannot afford treatment, they need to show up to their local reich-wing church which helped put the Republicans in power.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Anything that reduces the supply

of surplus Republicans can't be all bad. Maybe Republicans should be given the option of opting out of all health insurance. They prefer to go it alone by ideology. Survival-of-the-fittest. God protects them.

Maybe our mistake was in trying to help everyone. Some people don't want or appreciate the help.

[marybourg]

4. The problem is, if they don't have insurance coverage

for their own healthcare needs, then the rest of us will be paying.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Oh, but if you're going to be Darwin

help from insurance or the community or charity is not permitted. That would be COMMUNISM!!!!

[Aristus]

3. Elections have consequences, assholes.

While you Floridians are dying from easily preventable and treatable diseases, you can at least congratulate yourselves that you blocked a woman from being President.

[Raftergirl]

6. I guarantee that the R representatives who represent a lot of these people are shitting their pants.

Many people don’t realize the consequences of their vote until they are directly affected by it. And a shit load of Republicans voters will be effected by this and it is going to cost them thousands of dollars, unlike the cost of tariffs on products - which add up to- but aren’t an immediate sledgehammer to their wallets.

[markodochartaigh]

10. "Many

people don’t realize the consequences of their vote until they are directly affected by it."

Isn't this just the very definition of the weakness of democracy. When you have such an ignorant electorate, how much more difficult is it for democracy to produce a good government?

[NBachers]

7. It won't matter. The Pukes are the media organ grinders, and they'll blame Democrats & feed the poor masses with lies.

[gulliver]

8. We need to win elections

The party needs to retrace its steps and roll back ideological emphasis and leadership style to about where they were when Obama became president. I like what I'm hearing from Slotkin, Fetterman, Newsom, Buttigieg, and many others. Maybe we've stopped driving all over heck and are finally asking somebody at the gas station for directions.

[republianmushroom]

9. Good.