Why soaring insurance premiums are bad for workers, small businesses and the long-term health of the U.S. economy.
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“Rising marketplace premiums translate to impossible choices about rent, childcare, groceries and tuition for families trying to build stable lives. Allowing a hard fought set of subsidies to vanish because of political posturing is pushing many of those families to the financial brink and sending damaging shockwaves through our broader economy. We should treat this moment not as an inevitability — but as a warning that our health care financing system is out of step with both our values and our economic ambitions — and then do the hard work to fix it.”