Farmers are about to pay a lot more for health insurance

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NPR

December 31, 20256:00 AM ET


It's been a tough year for farmers. Between falling prices for commodity crops like corn and soybeans, rising input costs for supplies like fertilizer and seeds, the Trump tariffs and the dismantling of USAID, many in agriculture won't be profitable this year. The enhanced subsidies that many Americans, including farmers, rely on to purchase health insurance are set to expire at the end of this month.

James Davis, 55, who grows cotton, soybeans and corn in north Louisiana, said he doesn't know how he and his wife will afford coverage next year, when their insurance premium will quadruple, jumping to about $2,700 a month. "You can't afford it. Bottom line, there's nothing to discuss. You can't afford it without the subsidies," Davis said.

More than a quarter of the agricultural workforce purchases health insurance through the individual marketplace, according to an analysis from KFF, a nonprofit health policy research organization. That 27% rate is much higher than the overall population — only 6% of U.S. adults have non-group coverage.

Farmers are used to facing challenges like unpredictable weather and fluctuating commodity prices. But the loss of the enhanced subsidies, coupled with the challenging economic conditions, will make coverage unaffordable for many. Without major intervention from Washington, farmers say they'll have to choose between being uninsured or leaving the farm work behind for a job that offers health insurance.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/31/nx-s1-5655252/u-s-farmer-insurance-premiums-tariffs-seeds-fertilizer-inflation-iowa

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[UpInArms]

1. They never liked Obamacare

So, it should make them tickled pink for it to go away

Color me not very sympathetic

( I live in a rural farming area … they did not vote for Obama, they still have TFG altars all over the place e nd they just don’t care about anyone but themselves

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Good

[Bengus81]

3. Let me guess who the hell you voted for Jim. On top of that are you in MAGA Mike's

district in northern Louisiana?

[Ray Bruns]

4. The leopards are getting full.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. I have read that

many Trump voters are blaming Democrats in Congress for “holding up the subsidies.”

[BaronChocula]

13. Of course the magas do

Everyone else, including independents (many of whom voted for the turd) know the truth.

[BradBo]

6. And he would vite for Trump again, it's Bidens fault,

[popsdenver]

8. The entire nation of Psychiatrists

have stated that if a person exclusively watches FOX news and listens to RW Radio, they have been very effectively BRAIN WASHED...........

And all the Dem Politicians should get together, from across the nation, and PUBLISH DAILY a count of the number of RURAL HOSPITALS that are closing as a result of Republican's Healthcare CUTS.......

C'mon DEMS, don't just stand back and watch without saying a single word.......

We constantly hear from a HANDFUL of Dem House members and Senate members almost daily.... Bernie, AOC, etc but RARELY hear from any others, Including Bennett, Hickenlooper, or DeGette here in Colorado.......
There are 213 Dem U.S. Reps, and 45 U.S. Dem Senators.............

Same goes for Dem Governors................

[Grins]

7. "...their insurance premium will QUADRUPLE..."

And here is where I repeat my wish that Democrats have a messaging system that would blast

"So sorry. Tried to help, but you voted Republican. So sad..."

[gristy]

9. This might work even better:

"So sorry. Tried to help, but many of your friends and neighbors, and perhaps you yourself, voted Republican. So sad..."

[JT45242]

10. Wonder how many of the morons hate Obamacare but love the ACA

Goes with the brainwashing post above.
Not a lot of sympathy for people who are getting what they voted for starting with the tea party... dismantle Obamacare

[BaronChocula]

11. As the ad jingle goes...

We are farmers
dumb da dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb

(Just talking about the idiot maga farmers)

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. As much as I could not care about those who voted for the orange gibbon...

I have to say, being so dependent on insurance is quite... distasteful...

Okay, it is disgusting!

[markodochartaigh]

14. And when Republican voters have lost their health care

and their tiny local hospitals (which have been on government provided life support for decades) have closed, the talking point in their bubble will be that "government has no place in health care", that "government health care was always going to fail anyway". And they will forget all of the years that the Affordable Care Act did give them access to health care insurance, even if the term "affordable" was stretched to its limit. They will never understand that their local hospitals closed when the government dollars were cut, anymore than they understood when Senator Marco Rubio tried to gut the ACA by eliminating the risk corridors that insurance companies demanded to participate in the ACA.

All that the sick and dying Republicans will think is that "government health care never works".

On the other hand, will the one third of the electorate who couldn't be bothered to vote get the message from the Democratic party that it was the
Republicans who tanked the ACA? That is the important question.

https://theweek.com/articles/594868/how-marco-rubio-stealthily-gutted-obamacare