{"id":150284,"date":"2025-09-12T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150284\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:20:09","slug":"expiring-health-care-tax-credit-means-price-hikes-for-americans-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150284\/","title":{"rendered":"Expiring Health Care Tax Credit Means Price Hikes for Americans with Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than 18 million<\/a> Americans living with cancer, access to health care and health coverage is more than just financial security. It connects them to life-saving care that maintains and improves their quality of life.<\/p>\n

However, federal action\u2014and inaction\u2014may sever that connection for people with cancer.<\/p>\n

Without congressional action, current marketplace premium tax credits will plummet on January 1, 2026\u2014by an average of 93 percent<\/a> in HealthCare.gov states. Among people with cancer receiving these tax credits, 86 percent<\/a> report they will have difficulty affording and getting necessary health care services.<\/p>\n

Additionally, a new rule effective next year\u00a0(pending litigation) will raise the out-of-pocket cost-sharing limit for private insurance<\/a>, which will affect many people with cancer<\/a>. And the budget reconciliation law will require all people with marketplace coverage to re-sign up every year, which will inevitably, unintentionally result in people with breast cancer or lymphoma or skin cancer falling through the cracks.<\/p>\n

According to this new analysis<\/a> by The Century Foundation of thirty-two states that used HealthCare.gov in 2024, Americans living in places where rates of cancer are higher than the national average will disproportionately be harmed by imminent changes.<\/p>\n

Out-of-pocket premiums in above-average cancer rate counties will increase by 20 percent more than in counties with below-average rates. This is on top of overall increases in median individual market health insurance premiums of 18 percent<\/a> for 2026.
\nThe out-of-pocket premium increase will be more than $1,000 in above-average cancer-rate counties in twelve states.
\nAlaska, Wyoming, and West Virginia will have the highest dollar-amount increase in out-of-pocket premiums in above-average cancer rate counties.
\nStates with the biggest percent difference in out-of-pocket premium increases between above- and below-average cancer rate counties are Illinois (+42 percent); Utah (+26 percent); and Texas (+20 percent).
\nAll residents live in above-average cancer rate counties in four states\u2014Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, and New Hampshire\u2014and will face extra barriers to affordable coverage.
\nHealthCare.gov enrollees in high cancer rates counties are older and rely more on automatic re-enrollment\u2014placing them at greater risk of losing coverage. Premiums for older marketplace enrollees<\/a> will rise faster than for younger people with the end of enhanced premium tax credits. And automatic re-enrollment, which is valuable<\/a> to people with cancer, was eliminated by the budget reconciliation bill.<\/p>\n

Download the fact sheet here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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