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Sara Rubin

Los Angeles
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After subsidies expire, skyrocketing health insurance premiums are here.

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By Sara Rubin
| Monterey County Now
Stanton Ruese had long been planning for retirement. Those plans were forced to move up in timeline when, at 59, he was laid off by the Monterey Bay Aquarium at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, after building and maintaining exhibits there for 29 years. During those years, Ruese had enrolled in health insurance through work. It was only after the layoffs that he went insurance shopping on Covered California, the state’s exchange, established by the Affordable Care Act.
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After a beloved swim group founder is killed, her community regroups.

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By Sara Rubin
| Monterey County Now
As a storm rolled in on Tuesday, Dec. 23, I spent part of the afternoon at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, looking at the expanse of gray ocean and dramatic clouds beyond. The sea was flat, and a pair of otters swam by. It was beautiful, and strangely peaceful from this vantage point. I say strangely because even as I took in the scene, a handful of divers were underwater, searching for a swimmer who never returned to shore two days prior.
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Health insurance premiums could spike soon, if Congress doesn’t act.

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By Sara Rubin
| Monterey County Now
Have you finished your shopping yet for this season? Sara Rubin here, thinking less about holiday gift shopping (that should be fun!), but about health insurance shopping because it’s the season for that too. Some 24 million Americans are being met with sticker shock as they look to enroll or re-enroll in health insurance for 2026. That is perhaps most apparent when shopping on health care exchanges, established by the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
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