House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise

[Blaster]

“It's official: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won't call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

That means higher insurance premiums will go into effect for millions of Americans who get coverage through Obamacare next year.

The speaker made the announcement Tuesday after a closed-door Republican caucus meeting, saying that leadership failed to reach a deal with centrist members to bring up an ACA amendment on a health care bill set for a vote on Wednesday.”

House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended.

www.nbcnews.com

Death by Republican negligence.

This is about the right’s unwarranted opposition to the ACA.

This has to do with Republicans’ long ongoing efforts to destroy the ACA – unable to repeal the Act, Republicans seek to cripple the ACA by ending access to affordable healthcare.

The right’s meritless contempt for the ACA has nothing to do with its provisions and everything to do with the president who signed the Act into law.

This is great news!

 

[IM2]

"Well, we can flush the Republican Party goodbye."

The midterms are going to be tragic for the right wing.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

This is great news!

Probably not for Jones, he's probably going to have to start paying

 

[Godboy]

“It's official: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won't call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

That means higher insurance premiums will go into effect for millions of Americans who get coverage through Obamacare next year.

The speaker made the announcement Tuesday after a closed-door Republican caucus meeting, saying that leadership failed to reach a deal with centrist members to bring up an ACA amendment on a health care bill set for a vote on Wednesday.”

House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended.

www.nbcnews.com

Death by Republican negligence.

This is about the right’s unwarranted opposition to the ACA.

This has to do with Republicans’ long ongoing efforts to destroy the ACA – unable to repeal the Act, Republicans seek to cripple the ACA by ending access to affordable healthcare.

The right’s meritless contempt for the ACA has nothing to do with its provisions and everything to do with the president who signed the Act into law.

Democrats were demanding a 3 year extension. The GOP wanted only 1 year, but they agreed to do it for 2 years for the sake of bipartisanship. Democrats refused.

Obamacare caused these prices to rise. Democrats said we would save money, but instead prices doubled and tripled.

Every year that we subsidize this failed system, it causes the insurance companies to raise their rates. The more money we give them, the more they raise their prices.

We cant do this anymore. No more failed programs. Get rid of all of that shit.

 

[22lcidw]

ACA is a failed system. Why throw good money after bad? It was sold as a lie. Obama lied. He should be held accountable.

It is difficult to eliminate programs once started and some foundation builds. It will e interesting to see Progressive proposed legislation if they win the House next November. Theare going to have to add hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars to their budget to make up for at least cutting out some of the waste, fraud abuse and corruption of programs. The Somalians alone are master thieves from what we are reading.

 

[Blaster]

Democrats were demanding a 3 year extension. The GOP wanted only 1 year, but they agreed to do it for 2 years. Democrats refused.

Obamacare caused these prices to rise. Democrats said we would save money, but instead prices doubled and tripled.

Every year that we subsidize this failed system, it causes the insurance companies to raise their rates. The more money we give them, the more they raise their prices.

We cant do this anymore. No more failed programs. Get rid of all of that shit.

It was a disaster.

 

[1srelluc]

Good, I see no downside.

The 1 of 7 on Halfrican Care can pick-up the cost of SOMETHING THEY USE instead of me picking it up in addition to paying for my own insurance.

 

[hadit]

"Well, we can flush the Republican Party goodbye."

The midterms are going to be tragic for the right wing.

If the democrats DON'T have big gains they are possibly the most inept politicians in history. History is on their side and we'll likely have a good chance to laugh at them as they feebly attempt to make themselves significant.

 

[IM2]

If the democrats DON'T have big gains they are possibly the most inept politicians in history. History is on their side and we'll likely have a good chance to laugh at them as they feebly attempt to make themselves significant.

Given the cheating republicans are trying to do, things might not be as big as they should be. But nice try. You have to try making up something to feel good about. But what we see here now is ineptness at a historic level. Incompetence at a historic level and all-time hall of fame corruption.

And it's all being done by the Republican Party.

 

[TimFitz]

“It's official: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won't call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

That means higher insurance premiums will go into effect for millions of Americans who get coverage through Obamacare next year.

The speaker made the announcement Tuesday after a closed-door Republican caucus meeting, saying that leadership failed to reach a deal with centrist members to bring up an ACA amendment on a health care bill set for a vote on Wednesday.”

House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended.

www.nbcnews.com

Death by Republican negligence.

This is about the right’s unwarranted opposition to the ACA.

This has to do with Republicans’ long ongoing efforts to destroy the ACA – unable to repeal the Act, Republicans seek to cripple the ACA by ending access to affordable healthcare.

The right’s meritless contempt for the ACA has nothing to do with its provisions and everything to do with the president who signed the Act into law.

I disagree!

The GOP has stood in rigid opposition to every single attempt to provide comprehensive health care reform for as long as most American are old enough to remember.

in 1993, they fought “Hillarycare” to a standstill.

They made a strategic mistake in those days.

They offered therir own Heritage Foundation’s alternative to Hillarycare.

But when Mitt Romney used that template to create Romneycare, the GOP screamed over its own proposal.

Eight years later, the same GOP fought its own idea presented as Obamacare,

They began yelling “repeal and replace” .

This went on till Trump’s first term, during which he promised perfect health insurance in “a two week”.

Otherwise, they have nibbled around the edges, actively resisting enhancements, and trying to make the ACA more expensive and less useful.

They’ve done it again.

And now they own it.

 

[hadit]

Given the cheating republicans are trying to do, things might not be as big as they should be. But nice try. You have to try making up something to feel good about. But what we see here now is ineptness at a historic level. Incompetence at a historic level and all-time hall of fame corruption.

And it's all being done by the Republican Party.

Like I said, if democrats don't have big gains after being exiled to the wilderness by the electorate, they're really inept. I can see it now, Republicans still in charge and democrats sputtering in impotent rage, unable to figure out why they couldn't cheat their way back into power and really raging that they can no longer do anything about Orange Man since he won't be running again and they can't even sham impeach him anymore.

 

[TimFitz]

L

My contempt has far less to do with the POTUS who signed it than the very concept of the legislation itself. The government has no legitimate place involving itself either the healthcare industry. Certainly not telling insurers what they must cover or forcing private citizens to purchase policies they do not want.

So, you think benefit caps, refusing to cover pre existing conditions, and the needless (but deliberate) efforts to make insurance as opaque and expensive as possible are OK.

 

[TimFitz]

This is another right wing farce.

Notice that no names appear anywhere.

It’s logical to think that different factions within the FBI had different ideas about how the execution was to be handled.

The Grand Jury indicted on 40 counts.

It was an open and shut case from the beginning. The defendant had bragged about it! his attorneys spent time and effort throwing motion after motion in order to do what all Trump attorneys always do…..delay, delay delay.

Then he got elected and held a get out of jail free card from the Roberts court.

Not a single word in this article contradicts it either.

But the objective is for Fox to promote Trump victimhood. It’s a sure fire crowd pleaser with the base, and Trump, the audience of one, loves it too.

 

[Independent thinker]

“It's official: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won't call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

That means higher insurance premiums will go into effect for millions of Americans who get coverage through Obamacare next year.

The speaker made the announcement Tuesday after a closed-door Republican caucus meeting, saying that leadership failed to reach a deal with centrist members to bring up an ACA amendment on a health care bill set for a vote on Wednesday.”

House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended.

www.nbcnews.com

Death by Republican negligence.

This is about the right’s unwarranted opposition to the ACA.

This has to do with Republicans’ long ongoing efforts to destroy the ACA – unable to repeal the Act, Republicans seek to cripple the ACA by ending access to affordable healthcare.

The right’s meritless contempt for the ACA has nothing to do with its provisions and everything to do with the president who signed the Act into law.

The premiums don't rise one penny. Subsidies have absolutely nothing at all to do with the cost of health insurance premiums. They are what they are.

 

[Greenbeard]

The GOP wanted only 1 year, but they agreed to do it for 2 years for the sake of bipartisanship.

The GOP has obviously not agreed to extend the subsidies. What planet are you living on?

Every year that we subsidize this failed system, it causes the insurance companies to raise their rates. The more money we give them, the more they raise their prices.

Marketplace premiums are lower this year in real dollars than they were when the enhanced subsidies were implemented four years ago. They're jumping next year now that the enhanced subsides are being eliminated.

 

[Godboy]

The GOP has obviously not agreed to extend the subsidies. What planet are you living on?

Democrats refused to extend it for a year. Democrats also refused to extend it for 2 years. What planet are YOU living on?

 

[Godboy]

Marketplace premiums are lower this year in real dollars than they were when the enhanced subsidies were implemented four years ago.

You mean 4 years ago when we had a once in a lifetime pandemic? Do you think a pandemic might effect healthcare costs?

 

[Greenbeard]

Democrats refused to extend it for a year. Democrats also refused to extend it for 2 years. What planet are YOU living on?

The one where a handful of vulnerable Republicans have been begging for a 1 or 2 year extension and the House Republican leadership won’t even bring a short-term extension for a vote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html

There’s nothing for the Dems to refuse, the GOP won’t consider an extension of any length.

You mean 4 years ago when we had a once in a lifetime pandemic? Do you think a pandemic might affect healthcare costs?

I’m not the one claiming the enhanced subsidies led to higher rates. In real life, real marketplace premiums have been flat for years.

 

[initforme]

Helping make health care alot less of a burden would score huge political advantages yet nobody seems to figure that out.

 

[TimFitz]

Democrats refused to extend it for a year. Democrats also refused to extend it for 2 years. What planet are YOU living on?

You’re living on a fake planet.

The GOP refused both proposed extensions.

They only has Trump’s cynical one time payoff gimmick, which fell flat.

Dispite your attempt to inver the fscts, the z gop and your beloved fuhrer will have this hung around their necks.