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