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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

13 hrs ago

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 21 hrs ago OP

Of course they do,not a surprise. Keep gutting the ACA slowly and it will DIE Bengus81 21 hrs ago #1

rs have been gutting things slowly for years and hope they die AllaN01Bear 11 hrs ago #18

Yes, well that makes sense. Biophilic 21 hrs ago #2

Why do they even call it insurance? It is just robbery without a mask. twodogsbarking 21 hrs ago #3

Look, it costs a lot of money to plaster their names on stadiums and flvegan 21 hrs ago #4

Gee no one saw this coming. mdbl 21 hrs ago #5

The expiration date of the temporary additional covid era subsidies was written into it when it was passed in 2021. MichMan 16 hrs ago #13

True but . . . RedArkGuy 7 hrs ago #25

Um... lonely bird 20 hrs ago #6

As premiums rise, healthier people tend to drop their coverage, leaving the insurance pool sicker on average progree 20 hrs ago #7

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

In its current form, the ACA is a very expensive program that mainlines money to insurance companies. Intractable 20 hrs ago #8

"I pay about $180 for the premium. The ACA pays more than $1300" MichMan 10 hrs ago #19

Should I feel guilty? Intractable 10 hrs ago #20

Hell no!!! wolfie001 9 hrs ago #23

But, it is called the "Affordable" Care Act MichMan 20 hrs ago #9

We are the ONLY country with private health insurance RainCaster 18 hrs ago #10

We are not the only country with private health insurance. ihaveaquestion 17 hrs ago #11

My retirement job (age 65 to 73) was at a call center rhiannon55 16 hrs ago #12

Cut out the bookies. Universal Medicare for all. Max out the risk pool. Marcuse 13 hrs ago #14

Thereby defeating the entire point of the AFFORDABLE Care Act. It never should have thrown a lifeline to private Karasu 13 hrs ago #15

It's already dead in Montana. MontanaMama 13 hrs ago #16

In Victorian Britain, at least there were homes for the poor wolfie001 9 hrs ago #22

Think of the shareholders and nothing else, except top management compensation. Meeting adjourned. twodogsbarking 12 hrs ago #17

Healthcare Execs need more yachts and 4th and 5th homes wolfie001 9 hrs ago #21

Are they so blind that they did not know how much revenue they were going to lose? phxjurist 4 hrs ago #26