Pierre said he likes the security the insurance brings but would have to drop it if the subsidy disappears and the price goes up again.
“It’s going to be a struggle for me to pay for it,” he said. “What I earn is not changed.”
Valerie Dalton, 64, got her Obamacare insurance in February, after her banking job was eliminated and she could no longer afford the $700 monthly price to stay on her former employer’s plan.
She said her Obamacare premiums are about $360 per month, a price she still thinks is high but that she won’t have to pay for long. Next month she’ll turn 65 and be eligible for Medicare.
“I’m not politically active at all, but I feel badly that they are threatening this,” she said. “I think it’s really sad.”