Donald Trump appears poised to announce a two-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, due to expire at the end of December, while setting new limits on who is eligible to receive the tax credits, according to reports.
Without an extension of Covid-19-era Obamacare subsidies, insurance premiums for nearly 22 million American citizens threaten to more than double early next year, a point made repeatedly by Democrats during the recent 43-day government shutdown, who refused to sign a stopgap spending bill that did not address the problem.
‘He suggested an act to that effect should be known as “Trumpcare” and claimed it would empower citizens and leave them feeling like entrepreneurs.’
I remember Republicans dubbing ACA as Obamacare derogatorily. But of course Trump wants a Trumpcare
Remember when we had a legislative branch and not an autocrat?
We need to stop normalizing this unilateral shit
Yep. This is most likely illegal. As usual.
Did you guys read as far as paragraph 3?
Congress does what Trump tells the Republicans to. So it’s effectively the same thing.
Couldn’t read past the paywall…so, no.
No of course not, they didn’t even open the fucking article. They just read the title and started throwing out their opinions.
Wow maybe that latest election had a bigger effect on the GOP thick skulls than anyone realized. It’s just taking a bit to sink in.
No. It is all performative. They still want to end ACA it is just not politically savy at this time. More important to stack courts, wreck government beauracracy, and control elections.
It’s 2 years. Not permanent. Like his tax cuts to everybody expired after he left office. Except corporate tax cuts. Those were forever.
Everything the government does is a carrot to dangle till the next election. No one cares about making permanent changes anymore.
It’s 2 years. Not permanent.
Well, we may have a better shot at getting it permenent in 2 years under *barf* president Vance.
There doesn’t seem to be any rules at this point, why don’t they just pass a new bill that’s exactly the same and call it trumpcare, or hell just rename the current law?
Nowhere is it called Obamacare in any official documentation. That’s just what right wing media called it to get their reactionaries to hate it without thought.
Right, it’s so much simpler: just start calling it trumpcare. You can put some ceremony around it, let the taco spout word salad onstage, and have a signing ceremony. If the right people tell Trump it was his idea, he’d probably believe it
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Anything that helps people with health care is a win but this is another tiny band aid on the leaking dam of American health care. Plus they’re adding stipulations on eligibility.
Fingers crossed. I already have ACA, but I just had my job cut to less than half time on top of the increased costs. I was going to consider going without.
It’s still obnoxious corrupt capitalism at the core though. Burn it all and give us single payer.
But the Democrats got nothing!
Except restoring SNAP, rehiring everyone and guaranteeing back pay even after they shutdown again in January.
Democrats didn’t shut anything down. How can you cry and lie like that? Repubs hold all the levers, Democrats not simply caving immediately doesn’t mean they caused the shut down. Partisan politicians did and notably Mike Johnson kept sitting everything down early so no one could speak on it.
It takes two to shutdown dunnit
No shit? Then why did you say Democrats dumbass.
Well, umm . . people jump at the chance to blame the Democrats for ending the shutdown, but they show a real lack of understanding about political communications and policy statements, especially when fuck you, cuntface.
You blamed the Democrats dipshit, not me. I’ve agreed it takes two, you straight up said it was the Dems fault.
Hedge away instead of saying you were wrong.
You’re fun. How I have been enlightened.
You mean elucidated and it’s fairly clear you haven’t been.
No one was actually going to lose their jobs…what they did was illegal. Back pay was also a guarantee…that’s just how shutdowns work. And there was $26B in funds available for the federal government to use for SNAP…they just acted like they didn’t know how to access it.
The Democrats gave away their leverage for things that were already going to happen.
So no one has lost their jobs and prevented wages going out and the administration hasn’t done anything illegal? And the illegal things they have done were reversed by ALL the courts just in time for the holiday season when things like jobs and money are sort of important to some people?
And - Wow! - they were going to totally use the SNAP money any minute now? Well that’s a relief to know they’re not evil incompetent fascist crooked bastards who would roar with laughter at the idea of families not having enough to eat.
Gosh when you put it like that, everything was going to be a Happy Christmas to all and dog bless us -everyone!
But, i doubt it. My reasons include everything they’ve done and everything they are.
Sure, but besides SNAP, rehiring, back pay, and the aqueducts, what have the Democrats ever done for us? The roads go without saying.
Brought peace?
