Medical Xpress December 31, 2025
Iowa farmer Aaron Lehman was already paying a hefty price for health insurance, but his premium is set to skyrocket in January when major government subsidies expire, after US President Donald Trump’s Republican party declined to extend them.
That imminent change to the “Obamacare” health insurance program means that Lehman, 58, a fifth-generation grain farmer in the US Midwest, may have to postpone improvements in his farm.
“My wife and I have been paying about $500. We’re anticipating to go to about $1,300 a month,” Lehman, who is president of the Iowa Farmers Union, told AFP. “It’s more than double.”
More than 20 million Americans from lower and middle-income brackets are facing a significant increase in the cost of their...
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