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Care and Costs: What can be done about the price of healthcare?
Filed 10h ago · Via Michigan Advance · The Buffoon Desk
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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0
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This piece examines rising healthcare costs and the complicated math of premiums, deductibles, and coverage gaps, noting that ACA marketplace enrollment fell for the first time in seven years after enhanced premium tax credits expired. In Michigan, individual marketplace coverage dropped by more than 130,000 people between 2025 and 2026. The author links this to federal Medicaid eligibility restrictions in the 2025 tax-and-spending law, which add work-reporting requirements and more frequent eligibility checks.
The piece argues these changes are framed as protecting program integrity but mainly push eligible people off the rolls while doing nothing about the underlying price drivers. Proposed fixes include restoring the premium tax credits and state-level measures like price transparency and medical debt protections.
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✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
Calling it 'program integrity' while the actual effect is more uninsured people and more paperwork for caseworkers is the kind of phrase that sounds tidy in a press release and terrible in a waiting room. A state can pass all the transparency laws it wants, but if the federal spigot tightens, somebody still has to figure out how to pay for the ambulance. The people doing that figuring are rarely the ones who wrote the bill.
