First, though, Chuck Schumer had a meltdown, and doesn’t want to put Dems one year subsidies to insurance companies extension in writing
From the Mercury County Outlook
Moreno: “Is there a proposal in writing that we can read?”
Schumer: “There is a proposal that is very simple…”
Moreno: “Would it still have no income caps, so people who make a million, two, three million dollars a year—”
Schumer: “We can fix that later. We care about working people, not billionaires. I yield the floor.”
And then he stormed off. And from the tweet
Moreno: “I was going to ask him before he stormed out of the room because evidently he doesn‘t want to hear any opposing views or actually engage in meaningful negotiation … Would he continue 0 dollar premiums, which we know for a FACT, have enormous levels of fraud..”
“If he had stayed, I would have asked him a third question: Does he these monies to go directly to insurance companies?”
Why, exactly are the premiums so darned expensive, and how much go to pad the accounts of the insurance companies?
Trump demands ACA subsidy changes as Senate remains divided over shutdown
President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Senate Republicans to redirect funding for Affordable Care Act subsidies away from health insurers and toward average Americans, his latest gambit to pressure Democrats as a government shutdown snarls air traffic, leaves food stamp benefits in limbo and furloughs roughly 650,000 federal workers. (snip)
Trump’s demand to send funds directly to Americans, which would require an act of Congress, met immediate resistance from some Democrats and would face serious legislative headwinds given lawmakers’ inability to reach consensus on much smaller changes to the health law.
Trump, in several Truth Social posts Saturday, renewed his criticism of the health law, commonly known as Obamacare, when offering his proposal.
“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,” Trump wrote.
Wait, Democrats are against sending the money to Americans, and want to make sure it goes to the insurance companies? Hmm.
So, um, since Barking Moonbat seems too tame these days, how about Barking Humpty’s, because they are so broken they can never be put back together, just like Humpty Dumpty?
Mexico will pay for all the Obama Health Care subsidies
That’s going to be kinda tough since the ACA premium subsidies aren’t real money, .gov never had it, or paid it out. They are amounts that .gov pretends to give the insurance companies for the consumer in the hope that when the consumer figures their taxes for the past year they will get to the “Premium Tax Credit Claim and Reconciliation of Advance Payment of Premium Tax Credit” part on their taxes, they find that, oops, they didn’t really deserve all that free money that .gov was pretending to give them. Then the taxpayer has to pay part (or in some cases all) of that make believe money back. But they have to pay it back in real, actual dollars. Bummer, Dude!
That’s the money that the insurance companies get, the ACA premium credit scam amounts. And it’s a seriously huge amount because of the way .gov figures the “credit” was always intended to yield a “reconciliation”. That was the bribe that got the insurance companies on board to begin with.
American consumers of insurance should be able to shop for policies (or not) themselves, across all providers on a nationwide basis. Leave the states and the federal governments out of it. Premiums will drop like a stone and coverages will actually work again. Unfortunately, the medical and pharmaceutical industries will not be able to do what they do now, which is enlist .gov to hoover the bank accounts of actual taxpayers and funnel a bunch of that back to the corrupt politicians.
I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for anything worthwhile regarding “healthcare reform”.
Our health care system was not broken in 2008, but Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats had to ‘fix’ it anyway. We told them what would happen, but they did it anyway.
The fix now is simple: repeal the entire Obaminablecare package, and return to the situation in 2008!
The US spends almost twice as much for healthcare as the average of all the other advanced nations. Even back in 2008. Just as bad, if not worse, the US has a great number of Americans who have no coverage and end up either avoiding health care access or using expensive ERs.
Republicans have sabotaged the system at every turn. Why? Because the insurers, the hospital corporations, their lobbyists, pharma corporations are making billions. Money talks.
Dana is correct that the ACA was a stepping stone to universal healthcare in the US. And Republicans have sabotaged the system at every turn.