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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Questions for republicans:

Why is it so important to you to get rid of the ACA subsidies and make millions of Americans pay more for their insurance?

Why is it so important to you to drop medicare coverage for millions of Americans?  You do know that illegals are specifically excluded from coverage in the law, right?   If there's fraud, why not just go after the fraud rather than punishing millions who didn't do anything wrong?

And finally, why haven't you rolled out your own solution to fix healthcare?  Trump promised a "beautiful" plan that would cover everyone and would be affordable.  That was 9 years ago.  9 years and still no plan.  How is that acceptable?  How can you be so stridently wanting to destroy things and take things away when you don't have any kind of viable alternative to offer in their place?[/quote]

I got this.

Let's say your premium is $5,000 a year with subsidies and $9,000 withour subsidies? (just as an example)

WHO is making up the $4,000 difference to pay the subsidy.  Yes, I know... the government.

But who is really paying it?  The income tax payer.

So while you say millions will lose coverage, millions also won't have to pay for the health insurance of a complete stranger.

BTW, why do you mention ACA in one sentence and medicare in the next?    Did you mean medicaid?

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Your big explanation is that the taxpayers pay the costs?  Gee, thanks for the deep insight.

Who do you think pays the health care costs for uninsured people?

Yes, taxpayers.  Except then the costs are higher.

Subsidies are probably not the best long term answer -- too much it accrues goes to the insurance companies.  The whole system needs an overhaul.

But in the near term, subsidies are the best option we have for keeping our neighbors semi-healthy at lowest cost.[/quote]

I'm not down with near-term.  That's how we get budget battles every damn year and nothing changes.

It should be purposely broken so it requires fixing from the ground up.  I would like to see market based solutions and get rid of subsidies, which just makes companies richer because they see pots of money from the tax payer to tap.

They raise their prices to soak up all that "free money".  It's total BS at this point.[/quote]

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