I am your constituent and I want you to know that Affordable Care Act subsidies are scheduled to expire in 2025. According to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation, that will raise the premiums for these plans by almost $1000 for a single 45 year old when they make less than about 4 times the federal poverty limit.
These subsidies only cost about $33.5 billion yearly and are worth it to make sure that people can stay healthy. It is far more expensive for everyone to allow people to become sicker without insurance, because then we all wind up paying the cost.
Let me point out that the 2020 Congressional Budget Office report on Universal Healthcare discovered that by employing any one of 5 different strategies of a national single payer insurance plan for healthcare that we would save $400 billion EVERY YEAR ON JUST OVERHEAD and that doesn’t include the savings from negotiating every drug’s price. Here is the link for your reference, https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56898.
Universal Healthcare would be the best answer for all of us. But at the least I expect you to make sure that those ACA subsidies to not expire. Thank you.
