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Skyrocketing health care premiums
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December 2, 2025
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Michael Swanson, a restaurant server in San Antonio, Texas, relies on tax credits to keep his health coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
With those subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, he tells journalist Chris Vazquez that the same plan he’s on now would cost him 10 times more than it currently does.
Because of congressional Republicans’ refusal to extend these subsidies and Democrats’ acquiescence to their colleagues across the aisle, Swanson needs to find a new job that will provide him affordable health coverage at a sooner date than his current job would.
Michael is just one of several people I spoke to about spiraling costs—and the painful decisions attached. For more about how we got here, check out my other videos on the feed.
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