ICYMI: Health Care Crisis Created by Jon Husted Set to Spike Insurance Premiums

ICYMI: Health Care Crisis Created by Jon Husted Set to Spike Insurance Premiums

October 10, 2025

"The 583,443 Ohioans who in 2025 bought health insurance through the federal marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act are in for some sticker shock next year"

Columbus, Ohio - As Jon Husted continues voting to keep the government shut down rather than protect affordable health care for 500,000 Ohioans, families across the state are bracing for "sticker shock" as his agenda drives health care companies to hike premiums ranging from 2.5% to 43%.

See for yourself:

Spectrum News 1: Health insurance premiums set to skyrocket as Congress deadlocks over subsidy extensions

• The 583,443 Ohioans who in 2025 bought health insurance through the federal marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act are in for some sticker shock next year, after the 11 health insurance companies that offer plans in Ohio through the marketplace are requesting to increase premiums by 2.5 to 43%.

• Health insurance companies cited the possible expiration of [ACA premium] tax subsidies as a major reason for their requested premium rate increases. […]

• Health policy experts said abruptly ending the enhanced subsidies would have cascading effects beyond higher premiums.

• Democrats have said extending the enhanced subsidies could prevent that from happening and are demanding such an extension in exchange for supporting a measure to fund the government and allow it to reopen.

• Republicans have said they would not support a funding measure with those extensions, and that even if [they] were packaged in separate legislation, the program would need reforms before they would vote for it.

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