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.
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.