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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.”
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Maybe learn to read a bit, because it’s a matter of definition not of ‘data’. Lmao
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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.
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I think you totally misunderstood what they meant. Take a breath, probably turns out this was just a communication problem.
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