The squishes keep squishing
4 GOP senators break ranks to vote for Democratic extension of ObamaCare subsidies
Four Republican senators, including two vulnerable incumbents who are up for reelection next year, broke ranks Thursday and voted for a three-year extension of enhanced health insurance premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) all voted for the Democratic proposal, which was introduced by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.).
They joined all forty-seven Democrats in voting to advance the measure, which failed to reach the 60-vote threshold necessary to move forward. The motion to proceed to the measure failed 51 to 47. The vast majority of Republican senators voted against the measure.
No one should be surprised by Collins and Murkowski, they always do this. Hawley and Sullivan are disappointing.
Collins on Monday introduced a bill with Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) to extend the enhanced health insurance premium subsidies under the ACA for two years while limiting their availability to households earning less than $200,000 a year. They also proposed requiring lower-income Americans who participate on the ObamaCare marketplace to pay at least $25 monthly premiums.
$200K? Really? That’s insane. How about a year extension with a requirement for utter and complete reform. Ocare is not going away. The time to kill it was before it went into effect. It’s time it was completely overhauled. It started with absurd deductibles that made it almost unusable, then the premiums kept going up at least 10% ever year. The COVID era subsidies merely hid several years of big rises. Democrats do not want reform, because, while the original intention was to put health insurers out of business, it quickly morphed into Democrats making sure those same hated insurance companies got lots of taxpayer money, which then gets funneled back to Democrat election coffers.
Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess
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A recent survey found that 76 percent of people who get their insurance through the ACA and want the subsidies extended would blame President Donald Trump or Republicans in Congress if they are not. The broader public, the vast majority of whom would also like to see the aid extended, agrees; 48 percent of voters blame the GOP, while 32 percent pin it on the Democrats, per a new Morning Consult poll.
And, because Republicans are bad at messaging and too many are squishy, and the vast majority of the media are Democrats, they get this result.
This is wholly a problem created by Democrats, but, elected Republicans and the GOPe are idiots.
Can we haz Trumpcare?
I don’t know what President Trump would propose — quite probably nothing! — but I suggest Danacare, which would be to repeal Obysmalcare and replace it with absolutely nothing.
Our health care system was not broken in 2008, but Barack Hussein Obama and an unfortunate liberal majority in the Congress decided to fix it anyway. We should go back to 2008, go back to a system that worked, and get the government out of it!
Would Dana eliminate Medicare too?
Leqembi slows progression of Alzheimer’s Disease and is administered every two weeks via IV infusion, e.g., through the back of the hand.
Leqembi removes beta-amyloid plaques confirmed by MRI. Frequent MRIs are required to confirm effectiveness: Baseline, then MRIs before the 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 14th infusions, and as needed.
Makes sense…
Every other industrialized nation on Earth, e.g., Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, S Korea, etc, supply healthcare for ALL their residents spending, on average, ONE HALF, of what Americans do!!
How do they do it? They take profits out of healthcare.
We can do better by our people.
Mr Elwood P Dowd, who has earned profits himself from health care, wrote:
And that’s why they provide terrible health care! Long, long, long waits for care, while if I call my doctor, I can see her today, or, if she’s really busy, on Monday.
Doesn’t the government pay for Dana’s healthcare?
The last company we started was initially financed out of our pockets + 2 years work, unpaid. We squatted in a storeroom of anither company. We were able to persuade sippliers and contractors to invest with ‘in-kind” services, until we cut put together deals for equity investors. A couple of us still supply pro bono advice in hopes the latest group is successful. Nothing in it for me except a drug to help folks. It was my experience that most industry scientists, while well paid, derived satisfaction from doing potentially valuable work.
Sen Josh Hawley (R-MO) voted to extend the subsidies? Why? Because he listens, at times, to the voters in Missouri.
He’s not up for election until 2030 but is reading the tea leaves. And he knows his vote on this was not meaningful (needed 60 votes!) but signalled to poor, rural Missourians that he’s “on their side”.
Although the unpopular JD is the “hair” apparent, Josh is also eyeing a 2028 run for Prez.
Monthly premiums HAVE SKYROCKETED in the last year going up 50% even after subsidies.
But
After skyrocketing 60% of enrollees pay less than $60 per month.
Why does Teach try to hide that important fact from us?
Is that due to ignorance or intentional deception?
Of course in my ethics and logic class we are taught not to judge actions on malice when they are more often due to ignorance.
Like with puppy killa
In Big Donnie’s political rally in Mt Pocono PA, he said, regarding high prices and “affordability”:
“You’re doing better than you’ve ever done!” “… give up certain products. You could give up pencils. That’s under the China policy, you know, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two, you know, they don’t need that many. But you always need, you always need steel. You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is nice. But you don’t need 37 dolls. So, we’re doing things right.”
On bombing Venezuelan boats: “And now we’re going to do land, because the land is much easier.”
Is it?
BTW… Dems plan to repeat: ” … the cost for extending the ACA premium tax credits — which benefit everyday Americans and which the Republicans did not extend in their One Big Beautiful Bill Act — would be about $350 billion over ten years. The cost for extending the 2017 tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy and corporations and which they did extend, will be more than $4 trillion over the same time period.”
Plutocracy (rule by the wealthy) or Kakistocracy (rule by the worst)?
It was perfectly safe for the squishes to vote for the stupid bill because of the 60 vote threshold, and they all knew it.
We need to get rid of Obumblecare ASAP, and return to the 2008 status quo ante.
Congressional RePUBICunts need to “nut up” and do it!!
They have the House, Senate, White House AND a sympathetic Supreme Court!!
Now is the time to put the hammer down on America!
Heritage threatens those squishy Indiana GOPhers!
“President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.” Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith confirmed that “[t]he Trump admin[istration] was VERY clear about this.”
Fat Donnie, Mob Boss: “That’s a nice little state ya’ got there, be a shame if something were to happen to it…”
This is what authoritarianism looks like! The Fat Man knows that he’ll have to wallow in a world of shit if the Dems take the House.
Should Commandante Donnie order Federal troops into Indianapolis to teach those squishy Repubes there a lesson?