Thanks, Trump: Health Insurance Premiums Will Go Up to $24,535 Some Couples Who Earn $85,000

Trump Republicans will increase your health insurance premium $17,310 (240%), from $7,225 to $24,535 annually as reward for your hard work of earning $85,000 as a couple in your fifties.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pointed out that if Republicans do not change their attacks on Americans’ healthcare access, “the average fifty-five-year-old couple making $85,000 a year would see their premiums not just double, but triple to $25,000 a year.”

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Schumer in floor remarks said that the majority of Americans support extending the premium tax credits for the ACA:

Seventy percent of Americans support extending the ACA premium tax credits, according to a poll released yesterday by the Washington Post. And another poll by KFF yesterday found nearly eighty percent support an extension.

And guess what? Even a majority of Trump supporters support an extension–nearly sixty percent.

You don’t need the polls. Just go into a barbershop. Just go into a diner. Just go into a supermarket and ask people.

If these ACA premium tax credits aren’t extended, the …