After teasing a plan by President Donald Trump to extend Affordable Care Act premium subsidies—currently on track to end within weeks—the White House has indefinitely delayed the announcement under pressure from congressional Republicans, MS NOW reported on Monday.
The last-minute change of plan signals the GOP’s priorities: the party has fought to cut or repeal the ACA since it entered law in 2010, and was uncompromising in opposing the subsidies during the record-breaking government shutdown that ended earlier in November.
The last thing Republican elected officials want to see, the Center for American Progress’ Bobby Kagan posted on social media Monday, is a deal that protects ACA subsidies.
“That’s why they didn’t extend them in OBBBA, and that’s why they kept calling them a ‘December problem’ even though open enrollment began on November 1,” Kagan, the group’s senior director for federal budget policy, wrote.
He might be the only sane Republican in this case. Romney Care isn’t the socialized healthcare Americans like to pretend it is, its entire purpose is to give just enough relief to pacify revolution.
It goes away, people might just revolt when they can’t afford healthcare OR food. Obamacare (Romney Care) is a republican plan, don’t forget that.
I’m sorry that you don’t think the public entity providing healthcare is socialized, but if the DNC had 59 votes instead of 58 when it was being debated you’d be sitting here complaining about Single Payer instead.
Jesus Christ! There is no public entity providing healthcare under the affordable care act, the subsidies allow poor people to purchase private health insurance. It’s literally using tax money to increase instance companies’ customers and profits.
There was always going to be somebody getting paid, but the point being public funding provided healthcare to citizens and especially those who needed it most, via medicaid expansion, the subsidies you mentioned, tax deductible plans for those who didn’t qualify, and most importantly banning the discrimination against preexisting conditions.
You think those insurance companies got paid and nobody got treated? Because stats out there show tens of millions of people gained coverage who had non before because of that bill.
You people always claim it’s romneycare but then you sit there and spout Republican talking points, talk about dissonance.
The difference is that the government is largely cutting checks to private industry with very little regulation.
Yes. People get healthcare but the private industry just raises prices so long as the blank checks keep coming.
Same problem in higher education, the more money you inject, the more they slurp up with no regulation on how much they can charge.
Great News, reversing Citizen United has always been a core DNC Platform. It was also them who banned corporate finance of elections in the first place in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 which they had been trying to pass since at least 1995.
They also tryed to further restrict loose election and corruption regulations with HR 1 For The People Act.
Sadly the DNC have not had more than 48 senators in over a decade. Thid has demonstrably made everything worse.
Vote DNC.
Do you think having insurance is the same as receiving medical care?
What republican talking points did I spout? I want true socialized healthcare without a private for profit company in the middle, no, I don’t think the ACA is good enough.
But like I said, it relieves enough pain that it keeps people from revolting.
Now there’s a republican talking point! The doctors should get paid, by the state. The leaches in the health insurance industry shouldn’t, and the assertion that they were “always going to get paid” is peak capitalism.
The data tells us so
If you hadn’t lost the debate before this, you just did. Any credibility you had, just evaporated.
People want real health care, not some financial profit scheme that vaguely resembles it, so the government and the industry can say “We gave you health care. It’s expensive, and it doesn’t work very well, but it’s all you’re going to get, so stop whining.”
I’m sorry to hear there isn’t enough dead for you, have fun fighting against the bill and the party directly preventing more death.
Not a clue.
Maybe learn to read a bit, because it’s a matter of definition not of ‘data’. Lmao
Maybe stop vehemently denying all of the good that our party has done for us, all the good it can do with more power.
Which party? I can’t see where either party has done anything for us. The Dems have done the very bare minimum, if that, and the MAGAs are downright gleefully treasonous and destructive.
Aside from a very few progressive reps, the American people don’t have anybody standing up for them.
Have some dignity. You deserve better than the lowest common denominator “done for you”.
My and many others’ lived experience tells us otherwise.
Where is this data you have? That says people actually use insurance and can afford the deductables?
Uninsured Rates went down: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8314606/
Medicaid Expansion reduced Mortality Rates: https://www.nber.org/papers/w33719
27% of the uninsured skipped seeing a doctor due to costs, were more likely to need treatment in the ER: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2023-report-economic-well-being-us-households-202405.pdf
Theres a lot more, too, I could be sitting here pulling up studies all night.
All that is bullshit propaganda. No matter what your studies show, the true Bottom Line is that the average lifespan of Americans is about 4 years LESS than other nations, placing us 26th in the world, and the primary reason is a lack of proper health care.
Our health care system is among the worst in the world, with the ONLY objective being to generate massive, annually- increasing profits. Health care outcomes are simply a result of profit creation, and the success of those outcomes are secondary to profits. In other words, positive outcomes are subordinate to additional profits.
No matter what your studies say, they don’t change the fact that our health care system sucks, by anyone’s standards.
What you don’t cite, what you claimed and what I asked you to cite, is how many people don’t skip going to the doctor because of the ACA.
Not zero, no doubt, that’s my point; it provides enough relief to stifle revolution. No where near 100%, which is what socialized healthcare providers.
I think you totally misunderstood what they meant. Take a breath, probably turns out this was just a communication problem.
Nope, that user is a frothing at the mouth “the DNC is evil and have never done anything right” extremist.
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