How worried are R's about the ACA premium hike backlash? This worried.

[Seymour Flops]

Per month. For people that can barely afford the $50

Just get a job, Lesh.

Or pony up another fi'ty.

I don't care whether you have health insurance or not.

 

[berg80]

I don't care whether you have health insurance or not.

You've just summarized the POT's position on healthcare. Got sick? Can't pay for treatment? Tough shit.

Then go to church and pretend to believe in the teachings of the cloud fairy's son.

 

[Seymour Flops]

You've just summarized the POT's position on healthcare. Got sick? Can't pay for treatment? Tough shit.

Then go to church and pretend to believe in the teachings of the cloud fairy's son.

Get a job, sock.

Dont whine all day on the internet and look for sympathy and charity from people who work for our living.

Starbucks is hiring. So are Home Depot, UPS and Staples. All provide health insurance for entry-level psrt timers.

If 20 work hours per week triggers you, then yes. I'm completely apathetic to your plight.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Hey, they offered a two-year extension, but the democrats wouldn't take it.

A lie.

The Republicans in the house blocked that measure from consideration.

 

[berg80]

Accusations of fraud look like desperation.

As lawmakers’ debate over Affordable Care Act enhanced premium subsidies continues, Republicans have pointed to reports of fraud in the health insurance marketplace as a reason they shouldn’t extend the tax break.

GOP lawmakers cited a Dec. 3 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog, on fraud tied to ACA subsidies.

Democrats’ proposal to extend the ACA enhanced credits “is rampant — and I say rampant — with fraud and abuse,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said on the Senate floor Thursday.

Some health policy experts say the scope of the fraud isn’t as severe as lawmakers have suggested, and that it’d be better to improve the ACA’s security measures rather than cut enhanced subsidies altogether.

“It really is trivial, the scope of fraud,” said Michael Gusmano, a professor of health policy at Lehigh University. “It’s just a scare tactic to justify the reduction of the federal government’s role in subsidizing health insurance,” he said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/aca-subsidy-fraud.html

 

[berg80]

17 R's were worried enough to join D's and pass a bill to extend ACA subsides.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/obamacare-subsidies-extension-congress.html

 

[initforme]

70 thousand dollars per year isnt even middle class. Work hard for that is laughable.

 

[schmidlap]

White House to pitch a Trump Obamacare extension with limits​

The White House expects to soon unveil a health policy framework that includes a two-year extension of Obamacare subsidies due to expire at the end of next month and new limits on eligibility, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the unannounced plans.

The proposal would mark President Donald Trump’s foray into Capitol Hill negotiations over how to address health care premium spikes set to hit Affordable Care Act enrollees if Congress lets the premium subsidies expire.

A White House official declined to confirm the details of the plan, saying, “Until President Trump makes an announcement himself, any reporting about the administration’s healthcare positions is mere speculation.” MS NOW first reported news of Trump’s intent to announce a new health care framework as soon as Monday to address spikes in ACA insurance premiums.

As part of a deal to reopen the government earlier this month, Senate Republicans agreed to give Democrats a vote on the ACA tax credits in December. But GOP lawmakers across the Capitol have been divided over how to respond to the subsidy deadline, leaving many eager for Trump to reveal his preferences. Hard-line conservatives have been pushing to let the subsidies expire while moderate Republicans have been pressing for an extension. Some Republicans are angling for a health care overhaul to replace the credits.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/23/white-house-to-propose-new-health-care-framework-00666701

Don is nothing if not unpredictable so you never know what he will or won't do until he does it. But I think it's fair to say that while many on the board were doing a happy dance over the idea of R's "winning" the shutdown, meaning unaffordable healthcare for millions, R congressmen were not as sanguine. With everything else that's going against R's heading towards the midterms it would appear defending the position of "people on ACA plans can go screw themselves" is one they'd rather not be put in a position of having to do.

Notice how the potentially proposed two year extension gets them past the election?

Trump tried spewing his racist offal to distract from his monumental failures in healthcare, but Republicans will still own it in November.