The enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are still expected to expire at the end of this year, however, raising insurance premiums for millions of people.
Rebelling against their leaders, four House Republicans on Wednesday signed onto a “discharge petition,” giving Democrats the 218 signatures needed to force a vote on a three-year extension of the Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire for millions of people on Dec. 31.
If the enhanced premium tax credits expire, as is expected, insurance costs are projected to double, on average, for about 22 million people who get their coverage through Obamacare.
The discharge petition, led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has all 214 Democrats on board.
Fuck those Republicans.
Those absolute rancid pieces of shit essentially had this entire year to figure that out and do something about it when there was actually a chance of succeeding. Now they’re doing it simply for optics to save their own asses knowing there’s 0 chance it will succeed. Fuck them. FUCK THEM.
Now that they are certain it won’t pass, now that we’re well over halfway through the open enrollment period, and now that we’re at the point to avoid a gap in coverage they’re making a completely transparent and disingenuous attempt to seem like this is what they want(ed) not because they care about American citizens, only because they want to save themselves. It’s entirely theater and it’s disgusting.
In their defense:
They’re so hopelessly delusional about their own value and intelligence, while in fact being less competent than a learning-disabled chihuahua is at quantum physics, that their politically nihilistic misanthropy could in fact just be a contributing factor behind their staggering incompetence.
No, they’re too good at finding loop holes in campaign finance and insider trading laws to suddenly go this stupid on healthcare laws, they know this is performative and they’re just hoping their voters fall for it