Posted on 06/01/2022 12:12:02 PM PDT by Signalman
Earlier this month we learned the Obamacare premium subsidies that were included in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 are set to expire on Dec. 31, 2022.
Got an Obamacare subsidy? Your premiums are about to go up, and you’re probably going to get a letter informing you of your new jacked-up fees right before the midterms. Naturally, Democrats are concerned this is going to add to their political problems.
“Right before the election, people would get notices of big premium increases, and that will certainly not reflect well on Democrats,” Larry Levitt, a health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told The Hill.
You think?
Knowing that this is already a disastrous political climate for their party, 26 vulnerable House Democrats are trying to stave off the expiration of the subsidies. They sent a letter to House leadership, urging them to extend the allowance.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average premium increase would be 53% and will impact about 13 million people.
Without any Republican support, extending the subsidies would require a party-line vote via the reconciliation process to bypass a GOP filibuster in the Senate. But moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has already shown little appetite for doing so.
Obamacare has been rife with problems ever since it was rushed through Congress and signed into law in 2010. Barack Obama made multiple unconstitutional “fixes” to the legislation via executive action, and Joe Biden has as well.
Americans are already paying more at the pump and at the grocery store. A spike in insurance premiums would make their already dire situation catastrophic.
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Whatever. They’ll wait until after the elections to mail out the notices of increased cost.
These are the sorts of games they play to rig our elections. What’s most shocking about it is the number of people involved in it who have been brainwashed into the ends justifying the means.
“that will certainly not reflect well on Democrats”
They’re just going to say that Republicans blocked the bill that would have stopped the increase. They always pull the Uno reverse card.
They’ll blame in on the war in Ukraine or climate change 🤪
Libtards will believe it and vote for more of the same
... with the modes slavishly echoing the talking points.
Useless Republican pussies who never roll back Democrat lawlessness because they’re so afraid of people no longer getting free goodies....
It’s a Republican insurrection!
“Whatever. They’ll wait until after the elections to mail out the notices of increased cost….”
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Yep. There will be unexpected “systems problems” delaying the release of the necessary data files to the print/mail vendor selected to produce/mail the notices of premium increase.
Democrat response:
This is why you need to vote for Democrats, to keep your costs down
This is the result of greedy corporations and why we need single payer
Republican block every effort to lower prices
We need to ban assault rifles to keep medical costs low!
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average premium increase would be 53% and will impact about 13 million people.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Don't worry, just enough votes will be found to avoid any "devastation."
H. L. Mencken
Enjoy your Biden vote.
Rats will say if you don’t keep us in the majoity, there’s no chance to extend the subsidies. Me no like this...
I just turned 65 so as a self-employed person I no longer had to look at the Obamacare market for individual coverage. The window I had into this disaster was from age 59 1/2 to 65. My wife is 5 years my senior and her law firm employer covered me with a group benefit that was fairly typical. Perhaps $500/month for me as an addition to her coverage which was covered by the employer 100%. So, assuming that I was paying half and her employer was paying half of the true premium - I went from $500/month to $1340/month under Obamacare. I think I paid for that for 6 months, and then examined the health sharing plans and chose to participate in Liberty, which ran less than $400/month. I stayed with Liberty until I was covered once again by my wife’s coverage which I had from age 64 1/2 to 65 when I was eligible for Medicare.
I’m pretty healthy and did not test Liberty until I had a back injury which required an $81K surgery to correct. I paid about $3000 out of pocket and the rest was covered. So, I had no complaints about the alternative to Obamacare that I selected. But I did keep my eye on the annual premiums for a silver plan here in FL, and the last time I looked, at age 64, I saw $1440/month. If that went up 53% you would be talking $2100+/month.
The brilliance of Obamacare was the obfuscation - the hiding of the costs and the cross-subsidization (how much I am paying for my own coverage and how much I am paying to buy down my neighbor’s premium.) By hiding this - it curtailed the political opposition that would have coalesced if folks only knew.
If you have a fubocare policy, go to the policyholder direct. I did, and the exact same policy was almost 400 a month cheaper than fubocare
I like how not one post buys the flawed premise of the author.
And will the next congress repeal it?
The McRomBush gang will throw them a lifeline hoping to swing voters and it will backfire fabulousy like it always does.
No they won’t get the premium increases notices before 1st Tuesday in November.
Snail mail is never that fast.
Obamacare screwed up our healthcare system already.
My pre-Obama insurance was canceled, paying more for healthcare since.
And, I noticed, it takes quite a long now to get an appointment. Especially if you new to the doctor.
It is quietly becoming the long waiting times like in Canada and other socialized medicine countries.
Well the pubbies better mail some notices about the upcoming price hikes BEFORE the midterms. When are they going to learn to come out swinging?
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