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.
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.