So basically less for the most affected. On point for the human suffering party.
Roughly 40-45% of the people using ACA are Republican.
It probably will work well for Republicans, because those same 40-45% of people have been conditioned by their media to repeatedly vote against their interests. This won’t change their vote at all.
Imagine if all the suffering and death that will happen from this was preventable.
On the other hand, the GOP, along with some Democrats, just approved a huge military budget, $900 billion IIRC, and what have they been doing with that? Blowing up fishing boats, hijacking oil tankers, and basically gearing up for some sort of larger military action in South America, perhaps. More suffering and death.
The GOP knows that causing suffering and death is in their best interests. They need “others”. They need victims. And they need hate. If people were able to calm down and rationally vote in their own best interests, instead of billionaires’ best interests, the GOP would be gone within a few years. And after that, the Democratic party would have to change quite a bit if they wanted to stick around, as well.
Conservatives ruin everything.
Even with two failed votes in the Senate, and the real risk of disastrous midterm elections, House Republicans remain deeply divided on the issue of the subsidies. Because of that division — and opposition to the subsidies from Republican leaders themselves — GOP leaders opted against including a subsidy extension in their health care bill.
But after moderates rebelled by trying to force votes on subsidy extension plans through discharge petitions, leadership began negotiations. Now, House GOP leadership aides said they will allow a vote on an amendment to extend the ACA subsidies in some form.
Any such amendment vote would give moderate Republicans political cover, but would have little chance of becoming law. Even if it passes the House, it will need 60 votes in the Senate.
