| Earlier this month, Chuck Edwards cast ANOTHER decisive vote to make life more expensive for the 79,000 people in NC-11 who rely on ACA tax credits. Now, small business owners are paying the price.
In Edwards’ district, small business owners are speaking out about skyrocketing health insurance premiums. One Hendersonville business owner says his payments are increasing by more than $1,600 a month, forcing him to consider delaying his retirement in order to afford his health care. Another Franklin County resident is being forced to limit travel to visit family in order to cut costs and save money.
While hardworking North Carolinians suffer, Edwards couldn’t even be reached for comment to explain his vote.
REMINDER: Edwards’ has consistently rubber-stamped Republican’s chaotic agenda to raise costs for families across North Carolina.
DCCC Spokesperson Madison Andrus:
“Chuck Edwards is happy to turn a blind eye while hardworking North Carolinians suffer. Edwards is just another cog in House Republicans’ machine, and will stop at no end to please his party bosses.”
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Hendersonville Lightning: City business owner among those hit with ‘potentially catastrophic’ premium increases
- Pitts, a 57-year-old small business owner and Hendersonville resident…told CPP his monthly payment rose from about $1,000 per month to $2,670. By the time he cut his first check of the new year, his stress had turned to resignation, he said.
- Michael Kimsal, a resident of Franklin County who runs a software consulting business, told CPP that the out-of-pocket cost for his marketplace plan rose from $650 per month to $1690 without the subsidy.
- Kimsal said the premium increase will force him and his wife to limit their spending this year, including travel to visit family in other parts of the world.
- Analysis from the center found that a 62-year-old couple living in Charlotte with an ACA marketplace plan would see their annual premium rise from $7,225 up to $31,446. The annual cost for a family of four in North Carolina earning $129,000 would increase by $11,221. A single parent with one child earning $85,000 would have their premium spike by $9,976.
- CPP reached out to U.S. Reps. Chuck Edwards, Brad Knott and Tim Moore for comments on their “nay” votes to extend the ACA subsidies, but none responded.
- “The time for taking rigid stances on ideologies around issues such as these has passed,” [Pitts] said. “There’s a pretty tremendous segment of the population now that’s having to make decisions like myself.”
- “Do I keep health care insurance or do I wing it? What really needs to happen is for people to, instead of standing on opposite sides of the room and shouting, to somehow find the middle and for everybody to sit down and decide what they’re willing to give up.”
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