“People with insurance through the Affordable Care Act will see a “75% increase in premiums starting Nov. 1” if enhanced subsidies are not extended, including “twice as much in the rural areas.”
What PolitiFact found
An analysis by the health care think tank KFF found that the disappearance of enhanced subsidies would increase out-of-pocket health care costs for people insured by the Affordable Care Act by an average of 79%, which is close to 75%. Rural enrollees would pay more than twice as much out of pocket for their coverage than before the enhanced subsidies expire, according to an analysis by the Century Foundation, a left-of-center think tank. The Century Foundation found that the increase in out-o...
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In short
Amy Klobuchar (U.S. Senator, D-Minn.) made this claim around 28 September 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 September 2025, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Amy Klobuchar has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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