11/18/25 Afternoon CommStock Report – Food Security Put at Risk in the Fight for Health Care

Note to Subscribers: I am out of the office this week and have left a 3-part series entitled “Food Security Put at Risk in the Fight for Health Care” to air this Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I hope that a resolution to the impasse funding the government reached will restore SNAP funding authorization and that concerns over ACA subsidies are favorably dealt with. Food Security Put at Risk in the Fight for Health Care Part 2 of 3 Those with health care insurance are getting hit with a double-whammy. Not only are health care insurance premiums rising faster than the rate of inflation but the percentage of the premiums paid by consumers for work-based insurance are rising too. My wife and I are on Medicare and they dropped the drug election plan that we had because it must have been too good for us. We will be forced to replace it with one that costs more out of pocket…$50 month with a higher deductible to get the drug coverage than we were previously getting. United Healthcare dropped 8 of 10 of its Medicare advantage plans while Wellmark dropped 3 of 4 plans that had drug coverage. They didn’t drop the ones…