Shock, frustration for those losing ACA subsidies

Marketplace Morning Report

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4.5 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Some 24 million people buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. But subsidies and tax credits that have made these plans more affordable for the past few years are expiring, and the cost of health insurance is likely going to double, on average, for those losing subsidies. How do you plan for that? Plus, a Cloudflare outage took down sites yesterday, and tensions between China and Japan escalated.

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0:41.6	Chat, GPTX, Shopify, even the website for New Jersey Transit,
0:45.4	among many other pages and apps, were not working for a few hours yesterday morning
0:49.6	because of an outage at the company Cloudflare.
0:53.5	The cybersecurity firm fixed the issue, but it is a reminder that a lot of the internet
0:58.3	relies on a small number of companies to keep things running, as Marketplace's Henry App reports.
1:04.3	Like a lot of the tech sector, cybersecurity companies have grown in part by acquiring other
1:09.7	companies, and those few firms protect
1:12.2	lots of websites we use every day, says J.B. Branch with the Consumer Advocacy Group Public Citizen.
1:18.6	That means that when there's an outage, like the one that hit Cloudflare this week.
1:22.1	The ripple effect is not just to one website or two. It's to many websites, and it's not just to one country. It's
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