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.
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.
Our healthcare sucks ass
But the point I am making is that it is solely Republicans’ fault and that the DNC has made it substantially better even without the votes needed to bypass filibuster.
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.
It absolutely does show exactly what I claimed an what you asked. Uninsured skip doctors, the ACA reduced uninsured and mortality rates. Literally the thing you just described.
If you wanted more than what we got then you would support the DNC who did not have enough votes to pass the public option version nor have even had more than 48 seats in over ten years following.
You don’t want that, though. Like you said, you want revolution, no matter how many rights you have to trample or impoverished you have to kill in the process.
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.