United States Senator Cortez Masto breaks down how Republican choices in Congress affected price hikes for Obamacare.
On October 30, 2026, United States Senator Cortez Masto of Nevada reacted to a report on rising premiums. In a post on X, the senator broke down the rising costs of health insurance.
Premiums aren’t just going up on their own, costs are rising because of decisions Republicans in Congress made:
The GOP gutted Medicaid and then allowed ACA enhanced tax credits to expire. Over 5 million Americans had to drop their coverage as a result.
But uninsured people still get sick. And when they end up in emergency rooms because they couldn’t afford to get preventive care, that cost gets absorbed by everyone.
That means hospitals have to pay more to provide care, and working families then pay more for their health care coverage to make up the difference.
If Congressional Republicans had been willing to work with Democrats to keep Americans insured, we could have avoided this. But the GOP’s number one priority was tax cuts for the rich, no matter what that meant for the rest of us.
In her breakdown, the senator mentioned that countless Americans had to drop their coverage. She mentioned that ordinary people are struggling to pay for health coverage and hospitals are spending more to provide the necessary care.
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Senator Cortez Masto Shared How Republican Decisions in Congress Directly Affected the Price Hike of Health Insurance
The original report came from The New York Times, and it mentioned a 13% increase for Obamacare. This will likely become a problem, especially for those in the middle-income tier. To wrap her post, the senator argued that all of this could have been avoided if Republicans were more willing to cooperate with Democrats. She pointed out that the GOP is much more concerned about reducing the taxes of the wealthy and letting ordinary people fend for themselves.
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