Trump told Republicans not to “waste” their time on extending the enhanced ACA subsidies set to expire, saying he’d only support “sending the money directly back to the people.”
Republicans are careening to a health care cliff with no solution in hand. An estimated 22 million people in the U.S. are about to see their health insurance premiums soar by, in some cases, thousands of dollars per month, as billions in funding for the Affordable Care Act expires on Dec. 31. The expiring funds, costing about $35 billion per year, were first passed during the pandemic to subsidize insurance payments, capping premiums for a “benchmark” ACA, or “Obamacare,” plan to 8.5% of income.
Americans clearly need to touch the stove and get burned before they understand what they’ve unleashed. It’s regrettable but saving them from the consequences of their political decisions might be worse in the long term. We’re at this horrendous point where things will have to get worse before they have a chance of getting better.
What is going to be seen is what will be told to them by the water-carrying mass media:
“So here is is folks; Obamacare, you remember that right? The biggest failure in the history of the country, maybe the world. Boy, they really did a number didn’t they. They pushed this horrible, terrible, fat and illeeegal law and then they, and this is the worst thing, they put this big balloon payment at the end of it. Isn’t that terrible folks? Just terrible. But here’s what we’re doing. Here’s what we’re doing and it’s going to be great and you’re going to love it and it’s only because I and I got the best deal on this - people told me it couldn’t be done by the way I said I don’t care, do it and we did it. We’re going to be sending you actual rebate checks signed by yours truly. And there gonna be beautiful. These checks. Going out to millions of people but legal people, not the illegals. Millions of legal hardworking people will be getting these checks to help with this horrible thing the democrats did to them with their health.”
\sorry, I can’t stand myself anymore.
Americans are permanent residents of the ICU at this point, glued to 24hr tiktok reel propaganda about how “third degree burns aren’t real, skin grafts cause autism”
I’m actually of the opinion that Americans are stupidly selfish because they’ve never had to go through the unifying thread of war and mass destruction on their country. They’ve never endured a community/county level hardship. The Pandemic was close but even then it wasn’t the visceral, visible destruction.
The cold war? Cuban missile crisis? “Duck and cover?”
And what came of any of that?
The (wrong) lesson that much of the US took away from the cold war is that we’re basically untouchable. For all the fear of nuclear war, it never happened, and we came out on top. We never had war on our country, or even on our borders, and probably the tensest moment of the whole cold war, the Cuban missile crisis, we were able to diffuse peacefully and in a way that from many angles made Khrushchev look weak and like we came out on top.
The original premise was bullshit. That is all.
also the protests have largely died down in thier messaging, and were not very effective to be honest, since republicans dont protests it only is for democratic voting to reaffirm whats wrong.