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MontanaMama

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16. It's already dead in Montana.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jul 8, 2026, 03:14 PM

Yesterday

For years now, we’ve only had two companies offering health plans on the marketplace. Blue Cross of MT and Pacific Source. BC didn’t want to small business or individual market and they priced their plans accordingly. Pacific Source is ending their marketplace plans at the end of this year leaving only BC. Essentially, we’ve gone from zero competition to a monopoly. BC won’t reduce the price of their plans for marketplace customers, why would they? Pacific currently has 14,000 groups in Montana. GROUPS, not customers. Thousands of Montanans will not have insurance at the end of the year. This will be an unmitigated disaster.

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Affordable Care Act Insurers Want More Premium Increases as Enrollment Sags [View all] riversedge Yesterday OP

Of course they do,not a surprise. Keep gutting the ACA slowly and it will DIE Bengus81 Yesterday #1

rs have been gutting things slowly for years and hope they die AllaN01Bear Yesterday #18

Yes, well that makes sense. Biophilic Yesterday #2

Why do they even call it insurance? It is just robbery without a mask. twodogsbarking Yesterday #3

Look, it costs a lot of money to plaster their names on stadiums and flvegan Yesterday #4

Gee no one saw this coming. mdbl Yesterday #5

The expiration date of the temporary additional covid era subsidies was written into it when it was passed in 2021. MichMan Yesterday #13

True but . . . RedArkGuy 21 hrs ago #25

Um... lonely bird Yesterday #6

As premiums rise, healthier people tend to drop their coverage, leaving the insurance pool sicker on average progree Yesterday #7

And then the "healthy people" make that one trip to the ER wolfie001 23 hrs ago #24

In its current form, the ACA is a very expensive program that mainlines money to insurance companies. Intractable Yesterday #8

"I pay about $180 for the premium. The ACA pays more than $1300" MichMan Yesterday #19

Should I feel guilty? Intractable Yesterday #20

Hell no!!! wolfie001 23 hrs ago #23

But, it is called the "Affordable" Care Act MichMan Yesterday #9

We are the ONLY country with private health insurance RainCaster Yesterday #10

We are not the only country with private health insurance. ihaveaquestion Yesterday #11

My retirement job (age 65 to 73) was at a call center rhiannon55 Yesterday #12

Cut out the bookies. Universal Medicare for all. Max out the risk pool. Marcuse Yesterday #14

Thereby defeating the entire point of the AFFORDABLE Care Act. It never should have thrown a lifeline to private Karasu Yesterday #15

It's already dead in Montana. MontanaMama Yesterday #16

In Victorian Britain, at least there were homes for the poor wolfie001 23 hrs ago #22

Think of the shareholders and nothing else, except top management compensation. Meeting adjourned. twodogsbarking Yesterday #17

Healthcare Execs need more yachts and 4th and 5th homes wolfie001 23 hrs ago #21

Are they so blind that they did not know how much revenue they were going to lose? phxjurist 18 hrs ago #26