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 North Carolina voted for Trump all three times...Now, they're freaked out because rising premiums hit them hard
11/10/25 03:05 PM
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The health care debate has become a “microcosm of the midterm” in the battleground state as rising premiums hit.
By Katie Tarrant
RALEIGH, N.C. — Lea Charlton and her husband had grown used to finding ways to offset the “huge amount of money” she says treatments for her heart condition required. She and her husband even downsized their house a few years ago.
When she found out last year that she qualified for an Affordable Care Act health plan subsidized by tax credits, she felt relieved.
That relief turned to alarm when the 60-year-old former occupational therapist checked her 2026 premium on the federal marketplace.
The price was $1,825.82 per month, double her last plan.
“It’s seriously horrifying,” said Charlton, who has had several strokes in the last few months. “We may have to sell the house again, but we will lose so much money we poured into it after Hurricane Helene.”
The price increase is due to the end of an expanded Affordable Care Act tax subsidy program, which, barring congressional action, will expire at the end of 2025. A deal to hold a vote on extending the subsidies, which sat at the heart of the shutdown, emerged in the Senate on Sunday. It is unclear whether that vote will succeed, and whether it will be considered in the House.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/09/shutdown-health-care-aca-subsidies-north-carolina/
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