| Californians are starting the new year with brutal sticker shock, as health care costs spike 114% on average after Darrell Issa and House Republicans let Affordable Care Act tax credits expire.
The New York Times profiled the fallout for families paying the price of Issa’s vote last year to rip health care away from more than 32,000 of his constituents.
Renee Rubin Ross, a California mom who relies on the ACA to cover her family of four, will now pay about $2,700 more per month to keep her coverage. She told the New York Times: “I don’t even know how to get my mind around it. It’s the opposite of affordable.”
Meanwhile, the executive director of Covered California warned that rising prices are already pushing people out of coverage.
Read more: New York Times: With Obamacare’s Higher Premiums Come Difficult Decisions
DCCC Spokesperson Anna Elsasser:
“Darrell Issa promised lower costs on day one, but instead delivered crippling premiums and more California families forced off of their health care. He owns this health care crisis – and his betrayal will cost him in the midterms.” |
