* The original header on this was INCORRECT…..
Sometime a ole dog IS tired and get his shit wrong…..
Soooooo?
Democrats ARE actually holding out for something that BENEFITS the stupid Republicans who ARE AGAINST their OWN self interest’s , eh?
WTF is going on here?
“The health insurance subsidies at the center of the U.S. government shutdown fight disproportionately benefit areas of the country represented by Republican lawmakers, posing a potential vulnerability for Donald Trump’s party in next year’s midterm congressional elections,” Bloomberg reports.
“Twelve million Americans in Republican-held U.S. House districts are covered by health plans purchased through Affordable Care Act exchanges versus nine million living in Democratic-held districts. Of the 75 districts where at least 10% of the people are enrolled in Obamacare policies, 47 are represented by Republicans in the House.”
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“President Donald Trump believed the government shutdown would deliver Republicans a swift and decisive political victory. But with the stalemate now likely to spill into a second week, that calculation is looking increasingly shaky,” CNN reports.
Said on White House adviser: “I’m supposed to say this is killing the Democrats. But I don’t think it helps either side, to be honest with you.”
New York Times: The White House can’t decide: Is the shutdown bad or good?
The headline you want is something like:
“Obamacare subsidies affect mainly Red states”
We’re old enough to remember when blue meant R and red meant R, but it hasn’t been that way for a couple of decades.
And subsidies are like “subsiDes” with an extra I, rather than like “subsiTes” with an extra I.
Corrected….
Thanks DSD…..