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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

Jul 8

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 Jul 8 OP

Of course they do,not a surprise. Keep gutting the ACA slowly and it will DIE Bengus81 Jul 8 #1

rs have been gutting things slowly for years and hope they die AllaN01Bear Jul 8 #18

Yes, well that makes sense. Biophilic Jul 8 #2

Why do they even call it insurance? It is just robbery without a mask. twodogsbarking Jul 8 #3

Look, it costs a lot of money to plaster their names on stadiums and flvegan Jul 8 #4

Gee no one saw this coming. mdbl Jul 8 #5

The expiration date of the temporary additional covid era subsidies was written into it when it was passed in 2021. MichMan Jul 8 #13

True but . . . RedArkGuy Jul 8 #25

Um... lonely bird Jul 8 #6

As premiums rise, healthier people tend to drop their coverage, leaving the insurance pool sicker on average progree Jul 8 #7

And then the "healthy people" make that one trip to the ER wolfie001 Jul 8 #24

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

"I pay about $180 for the premium. The ACA pays more than $1300" MichMan Jul 8 #19

Should I feel guilty? Intractable Jul 8 #20

Hell no!!! wolfie001 Jul 8 #23

But, it is called the "Affordable" Care Act MichMan Jul 8 #9

We are the ONLY country with private health insurance RainCaster Jul 8 #10

We are not the only country with private health insurance. ihaveaquestion Jul 8 #11

My retirement job (age 65 to 73) was at a call center rhiannon55 Jul 8 #12

Cut out the bookies. Universal Medicare for all. Max out the risk pool. Marcuse Jul 8 #14

Thereby defeating the entire point of the AFFORDABLE Care Act. It never should have thrown a lifeline to private Karasu Jul 8 #15

It's already dead in Montana. MontanaMama Jul 8 #16

In Victorian Britain, at least there were homes for the poor wolfie001 Jul 8 #22

Think of the shareholders and nothing else, except top management compensation. Meeting adjourned. twodogsbarking Jul 8 #17

Healthcare Execs need more yachts and 4th and 5th homes wolfie001 Jul 8 #21

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