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Posted on 11/14/2025 11:25:53 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A monumental historic opportunity will be presented to Trump and the GOP – if they have the guts to seize it.
While the common perception of the six-week-long government shutdown is that Republicans won and Democrats lost, the Dems did manage to squeeze one notable concession from the GOP. In return for the votes of eight Democratic Senators to reopen the government, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) promised to bring the reauthorization of COVID-era Obamacare insurance subsidies to a vote in December. And while Republicans have no appetite to further bankroll a program they have unanimously opposed for the last decade and a half, both parties stand to gain something from the vote. But the difference is that the Democrats, shut out of power, can only engage in pure partisan politics, while President Trump and Republicans will be presented with a monumental historic opportunity if they choose to carpe diem (seize the day).
Can Obamacare Finally Be Replaced?
When the GOP likely refuses to renew the subsidies that kept the Affordable Care Act (ACA) afloat without substantial increases in premiums during the pandemic, Democrats will certainly follow their usual script and call Trump and his allies cruel and heartless for allowing costs to rise on the more than 20 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare. But if Republicans respond by just discussing how the program is and always has been unsustainable, they would miss their first opportunity in years to fix it once and for all.
As the president and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have proposed, those subsidies ticketed for insurance companies could instead be redirected to the beneficiaries with no middleman. Every Obamacare enrollee would receive a check from the federal government to spend on health care as they see fit through Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
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So elementary...and would actually be constitutional.
So much of the problem is not that the government isn't 'providing' coverage...it is that it is *disallowing* coverage.
Whenever the government fixes something, it always makes it worse. The best thing they can do is let the marketplace correct the problem, whatever the problem may be.
Anytime something is maddeningly expensive you should always follow the money, figure out who’s getting rich from it. In this case it’s insurance companies, they’re siphoning off an incredible amount of money in the trail between doctor and patient while providing absolutely nothing of value, they’re simply middlemen. Did you ever wonder why insurance companies didn’t fight Obamacare? It’s because they got richer from it, who wouldn’t want a law saying everyone has to buy your product? Start with the insurance industry, I’d prefer to see health insurance outlawed all together, it provides no value other than skimming money. Schemes like selling insurance across state lines are mere band aids that will be laughed at, they’ll end run that in a day. The problem is the insurance industry takes a large amount of that money they’re skimming and funnels it back into politicians pockets to keep them voting for laws that allow insurance to rip us off.
The GOP plan is sitting on their ass doing nothing like they have for the PAST 15 YEARS.
Total idiots for not creating a great alternative that gets the government out of it and puts patients first rather than insurance companies.
I got something that the GOP can do. JUST ELIMINATE THE ACA, and let the free market do its thing.
This is already allowed. I know because I did just that. I got a letter from SS saying they were going to take 139$ a month out of my SS check beginning in 2 months. I went to their office right away to cancel enrollment. It still took 139$ for a month anyways but stopped after that.
Republicans and “unite” are incongruous in the same sentence.
The govt jumped in bed with the insurance establishment and it’s cost us all alot of money and ruined healthcare.
Likewise did so for my wife, though I have to wonder if this means 'opt out without having another qualified alternative', such as the insurance of an employer (my case). While you are allowed to opt out like that today, there's the warning about a (big) future penalty of you sign on later.
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE OR REPLACEMENT!!! GET GOVT OUT OF THE HEALTHCARE BUSINESS ENTIRELY!!! THAT IS THE ONLY PATH OUT OF THIS INSANITY
You can have it fast, you can have it inexpensive, or you can have it high quality. You can even have any two of those at once... but you can never have all 3 at the same time. Period.
And the obvious and only way to make that leap is for the ACA to explode prices and deductibles and premiums (which it has), until the system collapses, and the ONLY possible reaction for the supermajority of voters is to insist that only government is big enough and has enough resources to "fix" the problem.
Let's not step into the trap as they intended all along.
thank you
needed to be said
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"Get the government out of healthcare."
Beat me to it.
“Get the government out of healthcare.”
Are we on instruments?
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