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.
You’re just reacting, you’re not listening.
Uninsured skip doctors, ACA reduced uninsured. There are still too many uninsured. Insured still skip doctors, because deductibles are too high. Health insurance in the US is more accurately bankruptcy insurance, a lot of insured don’t receive sufficient healthcare because they cannot afford anything outside of an annual visit plus regular tests. Anything that needs a specialist is often put off until it’s an emergency.
Your citation is irrelevant to what I’m saying.
Note that this is an estimate based on a survey. The ACA doesn’t provide a mechanism to tally the number of insured, and this survey tries to be representative, but could be way under reported.
https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ee0475e44e27daef00155e95a24fd023/nhis-q1-2024-datapoint.pdf#%3A~%3Atext=In+Q1+2024%2C+the+estimated+uninsured+rate%2C300+million+Americans+have+health+insurance+coverage.
That’s over 27 million people the ACA leaves behind, because it isn’t a sufficient system for the richest country in the world, where healthcare should be a right.
Again, once insured, people still skip the doctor because insurance deductables are insanely high.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/nearly-1-in-4-americans-are-skipping-medical-care-because-of-the-cost.html#%3A~%3Atext=Over+the+past+year%2C+22%2Cprescription+drug%2C+according+to+Kaiser.
15% of insured Americans skip the doctor because it’s too expensive.
https://www.kff.org/uninsured/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/
You deserve better than the ACA, you should demand better.
“You’re not listening!” screams man who says even one less injured, sick, or even dying is actually a worse system.
“I care about all the people we could be saving!” he says, while promoting abstaining from voting for the party who has done all.of the saving to date.
You truly are homeless hopeless. When they finally turn your back on you, none of us will be left to stand up for you.
You know who love Homeless? Republicans, which must be why under Reagan they defunded the US Mental Asylum system creating massive homelessness problems we see today.