Healthcare & Health Insurance Catch-All | GOP seeking a plan

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nycfan said:


“… you’re obviously a, a provider of bad news for Republicans. The Republicans … I think what most Republicans wanna see and I know what I wanna see annnd I leave it to them and hopefully they’re gonna put great legislation on this desk right here.”
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And here I thought Trump already had a concept of a plan. What a bunch of rubes MAGA losers are.
 
I tend to think the plan is to enrich CEOs and founders of every single game-playing corporation by transferring assets from working and middle class Americans to the absurdly wealthy. Republicans have no appetite for a good health system when the goal is maintaining an upper couple of tiers of wealth that are so financially removed from the mean American as to be difficult to comprehend. They want the US to be Russia and while a lot of people claim Hungary is the aim I think Hungary is just the way station.
 


Even if this passes the House it will be after recess. And even if that happens, the Senate would have to pass it and Trump would have to sign it.

Meanwhile, people have been deciding whether to enroll or not in 2026 and the enrollment period will be over before (if) anything is done. So either people have decided to enroll and hope for support or declined enrollment.
 
keywestheel said:
That's the brilliant healthcare concept he has been hiding from us for years.
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The "concept of a plan" is no government subsidies for healthcare. We have to be able to budget for lowered taxes for the ultra wealthy and the corporations paying them.
If you can afford to buy it for yourself, great. If you are young and healthy and don't want health insurance, great. If you have a serious health condition, are elderly and on a fixed income, have a family member who needs insurance, or want the protection but just can't afford it, tough luck to you.
 
Our 24 year old son has his healthcare through the marketplace. He’s young, just him on the plan and is healthy, so is only looking at about $120 per month increase without the subsidies. He thought about just dropping coverage but we talked him out of it since a young/healthy person is still just one unexpected accident from owing a financial debt they can never get out from. His fiance has a state job and next year after they’re married, he’ll just get added to her plan.
 
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CeruleanBlueHeel said:
I had thought the deal to reopen the government was predicated on having an up and down vote agreement on the subsidies? Apparently not.
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Just in the Senate. It happened.

The shutdown has been really politically good. The people who were complaining that the Dems folded aren't seeing the larger field. They were never going to get anything of substance, but they did change the debate. Whenever the spotlight is on Congressional Republicans trying to legislate, it's a huge win for Dems. We're now seeing the Republicans stepping on their own tiny dicks.

It is worth noting that all of these Republican plans will lead to death spirals for health insurance markets.
 
nycfan said:


Even if this passes the House it will be after recess. And even if that happens, the Senate would have to pass it and Trump would have to sign it.

Meanwhile, people have been deciding whether to enroll or not in 2026 and the enrollment period will be over before (if) anything is done. So either people have decided to enroll and hope for support or declined enrollment.
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Hopefully, if an agreement can be reached, it will allow for recalculation of rates for current ACA plans and for a second "open enrollment period" for those who might want to sign up with the lower rates.

Also, I love every time House Republicans decry a "failure of leadership". They intentionally elected the most spineless, bitch-made Speaker of the House possible and then are upset that they have no leadership. These are the kinds of dumb motherfuckers who go to Burger King and get mad they can't order a Big Mac.
 
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