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[Anonymous]

Dems will be fools to compromise!

Dems ARE compromising - if you read the articles quoted above, they already moved away from permanent restoration of the subsidies to proposing a one year extension.

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Anonymous wrote:Do people realize that the Covid era subsidies got huge in terms of budget impact because they eliminated the Obamacare 4x poverty level income ceilings for households?
So yes the well off can get them and that's part of the policy fight. Go ask Gemini.

Who cares??? People want this. The only reason republicans are resisting this is because they want to avoid a real negotiation over healthcare and don’t want to face the reality that the public actually WANTS subsidized universal healthcare.

Which people? I do NOT want subsidies to expand and expand until we painted ourselves into a single-payor corner.

Because that would be a bad thing?

Yes, that would be a bad thing to me. If it's what you want, go win elections with candidates who agree with you (and say it while campaigning).

Found the worthless insurance executive. Sorry you’ll have to stop leeching off society soon.

You must live in a very impenetrable bubble if you think single payor is coming soon.

It’s coming soon, Grandma. The kids have had enough of your bullshit.

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Anonymous wrote:So basically the government has been shut down unnecessarily and has caused a lot of pain for a one year extension that was available 3 weeks ago but was rejected because the Dems wanted to look tough through the election. Now with the travel disruptions and SNAP benefits the pain is getting real for ordinary people—not just us disposable federal workers—and they are proposing… a one year extension.

Lying Russian troll.

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Anonymous wrote:Im still curious why my BCBS plan costs $2200 for me and my employer, but I saw $3897 for BCBS on healthcare exchange a week or so ago. Why do they charge almost double? What is going on?

Since the GOP got rid of the ACA mandate, only sick people sign up through the exchanges. That makes the rates go up, which further reduces the number of healthy people on Obamacare, which drives the rates up....

This. Rates are high when you’re in a high risk pool. Republicans did what they could to gut Obamacare in the first place. Dems agreed to expiring subsidies just to get it passed. It turned out though that the exchanges were more popular than Republicans thought they’d be. We live in a country where shareholders vote trillion dollar executive pay packages but we can’t figure out how to let people buy into a health insurance plan. This country has gone completely to hell.

The bolded is incorrect. The original subsidies are still in effect. The expanded subsidies that were enacted during COVID are expiring.

[Anonymous]

Posting once again from Axios Hill Leaders (from this morning's report) to counter the allegation that I am a "lying Russian troll."

The big picture: Today was a major climb-down for Democrats, who started the shutdown demanding a permanent extension to ACA tax credits and the evisceration of the "big, beautiful bill."
• Last month, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries described a proposed one-year tax credit extension as "laughable." He's since expressed more openness to a compromise.
The bottom line: The Democratic proposal, if passed, would guarantee that ACA tax credit extensions move through the Senate.
• That's a huge priority for Democrats, who have argued internally that the party needs to hold out for more concessions.
• And for moderates, including key appropriators, the passage of full spending bills along with a stopgap funding measure is persuasive

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Anonymous wrote:Posting once again from Axios Hill Leaders (from this morning's report) to counter the allegation that I am a "lying Russian troll."

The big picture: Today was a major climb-down for Democrats, who started the shutdown demanding a permanent extension to ACA tax credits and the evisceration of the "big, beautiful bill."
• Last month, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries described a proposed one-year tax credit extension as "laughable." He's since expressed more openness to a compromise.
The bottom line: The Democratic proposal, if passed, would guarantee that ACA tax credit extensions move through the Senate.
• That's a huge priority for Democrats, who have argued internally that the party needs to hold out for more concessions.
• And for moderates, including key appropriators, the passage of full spending bills along with a stopgap funding measure is persuasive

LYING. RUSSIAN. TROLL.

[Anonymous]

If Trump told Senate GOP to kill the filibuster to end the shut down, how is this democrats' fault that GOP refuses to end the shut down?

[Anonymous]

LYING. RUSSIAN. TROLL.

Okay, a$$h0le, here is the link to Axios Hill Leaders - https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-hill-leaders

You can read it for yourself.

Dems supported permanent restoration of ACA subsidies at the beginning of the shutdown but have moved away from that position - they rejected a one year extension on October 17 but are now embracing it.

Also, your reading comprehension is terrible.

[Anonymous]

A one year extension means this all happens again next year.
Getting rid of the filibuster means Trump will have free rein over his spineless legislative lackeys and do anything he wants on any topic. I think the filibuster must stay.

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A one year extension means this all happens again next year.

Which I guess is what they want for midterms?

[Anonymous]

Let us pray for Democrats to come to their senses.

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Anonymous wrote:Let us pray for Democrats to come to their senses.

By that you mean stand their ground and let the GOP do away with the filibuster and figure out how to get their entire conference to support a budget, right?

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Anonymous wrote:If Trump told Senate GOP to kill the filibuster to end the shut down, how is this democrats' fault that GOP refuses to end the shut down?

GOP is scared $hitless about ending the filibuster because the tides will certainly turn one day.

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Anonymous wrote:Let us pray for Democrats to come to their senses.

Because it’s abundantly clear that Trump and the GOP have no sense whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

Give free medical to people who pay no taxes paid for by people who pay taxes who have to pay for medical.