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Posted on 11/16/2025 11:16:23 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Lawmakers are racing toward a mid-December deadline, with Republicans hoping to present side-by-side legislation with Democrats’ plan to extend ACA subsidies.
President Donald Trump has again promised a “far better and far less expensive” alternative to the Affordable Care Act, and Republicans are rushing — again — to deliver one.
For weeks throughout the longest government shutdown in history, Trump avoided negotiating with Democrats on the health care concerns fueling their standoff. Now lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are speeding toward a self-imposed deadline of mid-December to hold dueling health care votes.
Democrats maintain the simplest and most popular option is to extend ACA subsidies set to expire next month. Analysts say millions of people — many in states that supported Trump — will forgo health insurance if the program ends. The president’s own pollster has warned that not extending the subsidies would pose a major political risk for the GOP in the midterms.
But rather than sign on to Democrats’ proposal, the president has argued instead that billions of dollars in ACA subsidy money should be redirected away from health insurers and toward the general public, potentially in the form of untaxed health-savings accounts.
Many health economists have panned Trump’s plan, saying it is likely to create a “death spiral” in the ACA marketplaces. Healthy people would be prone to drop coverage, using the subsidies to pay out of pocket for whatever limited health care they need, leaving sick people behind and causing premiums to skyrocket.
The scenario smacks of déjà vu — with lawmakers and experts acknowledging the seemingly interminable battle around the 15-year-old health law, Republicans’ long struggle to deliver an ACA alternative that can pass Congress, and the return of a dynamic from Trump’s first term that repeatedly ended in failure.
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Let it die! Have a one year option to be on mid range medicare regardless of age, at the rate tha it costs the US, \while the market stabilizes. Educate & promote health care savings accounts.
My premium skyrocketed when Obamacare passed. I ended up dropping it and went without insurance for three years, then signed up with the VA.
Where is it written that we have to replace obamacare with another system if we get rid of obamacare?
The only replacement i can think of is the free market.
“Doctor, with what will you be replacing the 30 pound cancerous tumor you are removing from my abdomen? “
Correct. Trump 1.0’s plan along with Republicans was to repeal Obamacare. Loathsome traitor John McCain sabotaged repeal in an act of selfish vengeance.
I always want to know what the Democrat Washington post wants.
The Affordable Care Act was never going to be AFORDABLE. It required subsidies from the government initially, then subsidies from young healthy people who were forced into buying the “health insurance.” Predictably, the Democrats needed to add more subsidies initially to keep the illusion of “affordability” alive. Then the Democrats need to make it no longer “mandatory” as no one wanted to sign up. That is when it imploded on itself.
If Democrats want to have ObamaCare, they should be forced to live with the mandatory nature of the original proposal and the fact that the young will subsidize the insurance costs of the old. ObamaCare will never be affordable without ever increasing subsidies that the voters will never agree to pay for.
Yeah, in two months they will have a fair bill for all of America. Two months. How much $$$ is the Brooklyn bridge?
Repeal?
ACA subsidy money should be redirected away from health insurers.
Indeed they will get out of business fast without the skimming.
In many ways McCain was a failure while he was in office. There was a taint of corruption in his Senate career.
What our public sector overlords enjoy...
https://www.geha.com/2026-medical-plans
Choice.
I want what they’ve got.
I remember when those fools voted like a hundred times to repeal it, then when trump got elected the first time... They didn’t get rid of it. Not to mention mcstain. Posers
Fee for Service, Insurance is supposed to be for Unforeseeable Catastrophic events, not sex changes and weight loss.
Better than allowing the fraud & boondoggle that is OCare to continue.
Just walk away.
Leave Obamacare in place for people who want it, provided that they pay for it.
Let everyone who wants out to walk away.
Let insurance companies offer plans tailored to whatever market segments they choose.
Let doctors, hospitals and clinics participate or not.
The Obamacare death spiral would be immediate.
The residual welfare component would remain. There are indeed people with impossibly high medical costs arising from conditions outside their control. We can provide generous and compassionate support there. But generally, if ya done it to yourself, you pay the bills.
Obama Care was just a shift of Medicare and Medicaid eligible expanding eligibility. I will admit a few items in the law were very good but not the expansion of government subsidies for illegals and those who shouldn’t qualify.
Replace it with what we had before Obamacare.
>Nothing?
Precisely. We’re already paying their student loans.
They can pay for their own damned healthcare.
I remember as well.
They could vote now to repeal it but the problem is, we have a President who would actually sign the bill and Obamacare would be gone.
It was all “show votes” and grandstanding when they had a President who would never sign.
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