Five Days Left in Open Enrollment for Jan 1 Plans, Collins to Blame for Mainers’ Skyrocketing Insurance Costs

Collins refused to extend tax credits, Mainers are paying the price and forgoing insurance

Augusta, Maine – There are only five days left in the CoverME ACA marketplace’s open enrollment period for plans that begin Jan 1, and thousands of Mainers are already canceling their ACA plans amid “sticker shock” over their skyrocketing insurance rates. As more than 50,000 Mainers grapple with making life-changing decisions in the final days of open enrollment, they have Susan Collins to blame after she refused to include an extension of ACA tax credits in the deal to reopen the government, repeatedly voted against extending credits and said calling ACA tax credits “poison pills.”

Maine Democratic Party spokesperson Tommy Garcia:
“Thousands of Mainers are seeing their insurance rates skyrocket and many are already forgoing insurance because Susan Collins refused to extend ACA tax credits when she had the chance. Collins has consistently put affordable health care at risk for thousands of Mainers, and they will hold her accountable for it come 2026.”

Read about Collins’ long record blocking ACA tax credit extensions.

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