The shutdown debate over expiring enhanced ObamaCare subsidies has put Republicans on the defensive over health care, reopening old wounds over the 2017 attempt to repeal and replace the law.
Fifteen years since the Affordable Care Act was passed, the scars from the repeal effort and the GOP’s lingering disgust for the law are influencing the party’s scattered response.
While Republicans are united in criticizing the law and the need for subsidies, there is no clear plan on how to deal with rising premiums if those subsidies are allowed to expire.
Fifteen years since the Affordable Care Act was passed
I point this out every time GOP and ObamaCare and Repeal are mentioned.
Republicans in 2016 fucking RAN on repealing the ACA. It was a full blown blitz. In the final years of Obama, Republican-controlled House and Senate fucking PASSED full repeals of the ACA. Obama, of course, vetoes each one of them. They amounted something like 80+ bills to fully repeal it.
Trump runs on getting rid of “ObAmAcArE!” He wins the White House with, again, a Republican-controlled House and Senate.
Not ONE single bill to repeal the ACA was ever introduced. Famously, Republicans said “TWO WEEKS!” for their plan that never came to fruition.
Republicans know how popular the ACA is. They also knew that Trump would be dumb enough to sign a repeal into law.
This is all performative politics: gaslighting their base so that they will look good in upcoming local elections. Republicans, again, fully control the House and Senate and could repeal the law full-cloth but they don’t. Because they know they’ll get slaughtered in the elections.
Also Obamacare is a Republican plan to begin with, it’s essentially the same as Romneycare.
Unlimited subsidies for oil companies, but none for your own damn healthcare.
I r MAGA an I r teh smarts.
“Pay me what they pay me or shut the fuck up you poor pile of shit.” - Mike “I watch my kid pull his” Johnson.
It’s called the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare is a term invented to taint people’s perception.
The sad (but predictable) thing is that it worked.
Republicans HATE Obamacare. But don’t you dare try to take away their Affordable Care Act Medicaid!!
True, but Obama basically said, “I’ll allow it.”
He said he liked the term because the GOP was saying “Obama cares”
SO? I don’t use OBAMACARE! I use the AFfordable Care Act! And EVEN if it Goes up Fox News told me it’s DEMONRATS fault even though REPUBLICANS control EVERY part of the Government including the Courts! I"M A FREE THINKER!
Their voters don’t care. They’ll pay through the nose since it’s going to get sliced off to spite their face that is being eaten by a leopard.
I think you overestimate the median solvency of the average GOP voter
There always seems to be plenty of money to support a failing pillow grift.
There’s always plenty of money in the
bananapillow stand.
I don’t think it’s about the solvency, I am more willing to talk with and interact with the homeless than most and there are a dangerously high number of the homeless who are pro-Republican even though a lot of those policies make their already difficult lives harder.
I mean this genuinely, they would become homeless to stick it to the libs and nothing will change their mind, even losing house and home.
So they chose to be homeless then
there is no clear plan on how to deal with rising premiums if those subsidies are allowed to expire.
The plan is to do nothing and blame Democrats. Why would the GOP give a shit if poor people have to spend money money.
Maybe they should check their “Holy Bible” Project 2025 for answers.
