Marketplace All-in-One Shock, frustration for those losing ACA subsidies
Nov 19, 2025
Samantha Fields, a Marketplace reporter, discusses the impending expiration of ACA subsidies affecting 24 million health insurance subscribers. She shares the heart-wrenching story of Rebecca Wilson, whose premiums could quadruple, spotlighting the financial strain on families. Fields emphasizes the need for proactive planning amidst rising healthcare costs and offers insights from policy experts on navigating this crisis. The conversation also briefly touches on a Cloudflare outage and increasing global tensions, adding layers of complexity to today's challenges.
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Internet Depends On A Few Big Firms
- A few large cybersecurity firms power much of the internet, so outages at one provider ripple widely.
- Businesses accept that outsourcing scale brings efficiency but also concentrated single points of failure.
China-Japan Tensions Hit Trade And Travel
- Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan have escalated over comments about Taiwan and trade restrictions.
- China banned Japanese seafood imports and urged citizens not to travel to Japan after the Japanese PM's remarks.
Subsidy Expiry Could Double Premiums
- Enhanced ACA premium tax credits are expiring and Congress likely won't renew them, though a last-minute extension is possible.
- Combined with insurers' ~25% rate increases, many losing subsidies could see premiums roughly double on average.