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.
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
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.
Have some dignity. You deserve better than the lowest common denominator “done for you”.
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