Listen?
Some Republican lawmakers REALLY do NOT care if they piss off voters about healthcare….
Their jobs in DC maybe side hustles….
Being defeated come next year ain’t big deal to them….
Cause they ARE gonna lose their jobs if the mess around with 20 Million people’s healthcare coverage…..
The warning bell’s ARE ringing….
(Even in RED States!)
Those enhanced credits have spurred enrollment in the ACA marketplaces, which has more than doubled from about 11 million to more than 24 million people over the last five years. Some subsidies had already been available for households earning between 100 percent and 400 percent of the poverty line.
Flood is chairman of the House’s Main Street Caucus, which consists of more than 80 members who consider themselves “pragmatic conservatives.” He described in an interview the type of situation he keeps hearing.
“He’s 62, and she’s 64; she’s going to get on Medicare next year. Their premium right now is $2,200, and it’s going to $3,000,” Flood said. “$3,000 a month is obscene. That buys you the best house in Butler County, Nebraska.”
Pretty much every member of Congress can tell you stories like these, and that’s why the situation in which they find themselves is so perplexing. It’s doubly confounding given that “affordability” is what voters consider the top political issue going into a midterm election year. President Donald Trump owes his election to a second term in large part to concerns over the rising cost of living, a chief driver of which has been health care.
Three months ago, the Democrats’ battle to extend the expiring subsidies triggered the longest government shutdown in history. Yet the two parties are no closer to a deal on what to do about it….
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The sticker shock will directly affect the tens of millions of Americans who take advantage of the subsidies. Most of them live in Republican-held congressional districts.
KFF has estimated that the expiration of the subsidies would more than double, on average, what people are paying annually. More than 4 million people would be likely to lose their health insurance entirely over the next decade, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
And while Republicans claim the law has fueled soaring health care costs, studies have shown that the overall increase in health care spending as a share of gross domestic product has slowed since its passage…..
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