If you’ve been following recent news, you know American health insurance is in danger (as if it wasn’t already). Now, with open enrollment, many Americans are finding plans under the Affordable Care Act aren’t actually affordable like they claim. The average premium insurance is now up 26% and individuals are drowning because of it. Just take this Arizona couple on TikTok, who are feeling the pressure as he and his husband found their insurance increasing by an astounding amount the average American can’t afford.
TikToker Jared posted a tearful video explaining he and his husband’s insurance is going from $59 to $1208, plus some change. That’s every month, too. Imagine logging into your insurance’s website and getting smacked in the face with that surprise. For Jared, there was already an increase back in July 2025 to nearly $800 a month. These are insane amounts of money that most people can’t even touch with the cost of things these days. If regular people can’t afford $1000 for an emergency, how are they expected to pay $1200 a month?
To make matters worse, Jared said their family deductible used to be $0 but now it’s over $11,000. This means they’ll be paying thousands of dollars until their insurance even kicks in. Jared claims his husband tried to have a prescription filled that used to be covered by their insurance. In tears, he says the co-pay for the prescription was $1,200—and that’s after their insurance is factored in.
For decades, countries across the world have stood on the grounds of universal health care and this is what we are choosing to do to people in America. It’s literally torturous and people are going to die because of it, for something completely avoidable.
“This was part of the Republican plan. They couldn’t get rid of the ACA so the option was to make the ACA so unaffordable that people would drop their health insurance plans. If only they would have voted for the Black woman, racism is expensive,” one person said, referring to Obamacare. Not even our senior citizens are safe from rising healthcare insurance costs!
“They want us to all go broke, starve and die from lack of medical attention,” another person argued. But as long as it doesn’t harm them, it’s okay, right? Cruelty isn’t lacking in the healthcare department it seems.
