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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
Unfortunately I'm going to have to agree with this. GOP could have still passed it without them, but Dems held out for ACA credits, and they still didn't get them? Those 8 that signed on should be shamed out of the party for that nonsense. Chuck Schumer is a huge loser and has lost control of his caucus.
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Hail Raiser
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
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Oh, by no means are they getting those ACA tax credits. They lost their leverage when they handed it all to the GOP.
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Join Date: Jan 2024
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
The Dems were never going to get the funding for health care, it was only a matter of time before enough caved. Trump has taking paying SNAP benefits to the Supreme Court. He has great distain for the poor as he does everything he cans to starve them and remove their health care.
Isn't the south a very poor region of the nation full of poverty and SNAP and ACA beneficiaries? Trump carried those states, those morons are now facing the consequences of their vote. |
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If the roles had been reversed, the GOP would have held firm until they lost the fucking Senate. That's how much power Trump has over his party. Dems for the most part are pathetic pussies that plays the game with the rules they think should be in place, not the rules that the other team is playing by. If I'm one of those other senators, I'd be calling for Schumer's head on a plate until he was either ousted or forced into retirement.
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
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Yes let’s talk about the failed Obamacare healthcare legislation that has done nothing to help anyone except load more people on it who shouldn’t qualify and increased healthcare cost across the country since its inception. It’s failed period. And for who? Early retirees: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/aca-...-shutdown.html Fucking boomers, so again a massive burden on the taxpayers to folks who don’t need the help because of comfort of being able to retire early. The legislation is an absolute failure from what it would say it would do, to what it actually did. It’s been a boon for the healthcare industry, though. Great job
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
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I am disappointed in the senate democrats no doubt. If that was what they were going to do they should've just done it. Instead they only put off firing federal employees until the end of January and will definitely lose healthcare. In terms of the ACA the main reason there is majority of Americans approve it (64%) including 19% of republicans which is the highest it has ever been. Is because it allows for coverage of pre existing conditions which is an abject failure of the private system that nobody wants to revert back to. In terms of increased costs comparing what we had to the ACA, the decade before the ACA 2000-2010 premiums went up 8-10% per a year while wage growth was 2-3%. The decade after the ACA enactment premiums went up at a rate of 4-5% while wages went up 2.5-3%. 2020-2023 premiums went up 3-6% while wages went up 4-5%. My sources (Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF Employer Health Benefits Surveys, 2000–2023), CMS National Health Expenditure Data, Bureau of Labor Statistics) I am not a fan of the ACA because I believe universal healthcare is the only morally responsible thing for a MDC to do. I also do not like whether my healthcare is decided by the profit margins of a handful of millionaires to billionaires. So what is the republican solution to this? They have had a decade and have yet to come up with anything in writing. Going back to what we had isn't the answer. I am still waiting for the most favored nation to start reducing pharmaceuticals. There is lots of failure by leadership here.
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
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Let's talk about your side. Trump not only refused to fund SNAP after the court ordered him, but he specifically took the issue to the Supreme Court. That's how bad he hates poor starving kids. Yeah, that's a much worse look than anything Dems did. Trump said he had a healthcare bill ready in 2 weeks. That was back in 2017. If the ACA is such a huge failure that you all keep talking about, why hasn't the Republicans put forth a SINGLE healthcare bill in 3 decades? Not a one. Why?
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
Reminder
ACA Subsidies Weren’t Being Taken Away by GOP, Dems ‘Designed Those Tax Credits to Expire In their own legislation Shrugs…a democrat failure
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
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AND what is even more of an abject failure than the Republicans abject failure is the failure of the moderate republicans and moderate democrats to come up with a bipartisan solution that could carry 2/3rds in both houses. I'm neither an economist, or healthcare guru, but with all the wisdom and knowledge out there it seems to me there must be a solution that is not all democrat or all republican based. Sent from my SM-S711U using Tapatalk |
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
chico for you............
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
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Obamacare premiums are expected to rise by 18% on average in 2026. With or without My absolute preference would be massive reforms for the ACA along with reforms within Medicaid. Obviously we aren’t giving free healthcare to everyone and we aren’t giving free healthcare to folks who aren’t citizens. Can we start with that premise and move forward? And no we aren’t going to give states fungible money so they can get around those principles…start with helping the people who need it. So that means we are not going to focus on early retirees, people who make 500k a year or 250k individually. That’s not who needs the help.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
So the spending bill includes potential $500,000 payouts to some senators. Unbelievable.
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Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
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Un fucking believable |
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