Posted on 06/03/2025 2:57:47 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
WASHINGTON — Kenny Capps is a cancer patient who has been battling multiple myeloma for a decade. A 53-year-old father of three children who lives in North Carolina, he was on the brink of losing his health insurance coverage due to rising costs — until Democrats passed an Obamacare funding boost four years ago.
“Thanks to the enhanced premium tax credits, we were able to keep affording insurance,” Capps told NBC News during a recent visit to Washington to raise awareness about the issue. “It had almost doubled to the point of my mortgage at that time, so I was getting close to the point of having to make decisions as to whether I was going to pay my bills or have health insurance.”
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The republicans will gladly let anything ACA expire, and will repeal Obamacare.
What will happen.
The GOP Establishment will cave on the issue, pass a bill extending Obamacare and we will continue to be stuck with it.
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I'm wrong about things all the time as most of us are, and I wish I would be wrong on this one too. But I don't think I will be. If there's one thing we can rely on when it comes to the GOP Establishment, its their willingness to help out the Democrats.
I think we all knew the gop-e didn’t have the guts to repeal bammycare.
Mr. President: tear down this obamacare!
That bastard McCain with his thumbs down lie is the reason.
That bastard McCain with his thumbs down lie is the reason.
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It was a moment of treachery, betrayal and spite of historical infamy.
Touching Medicaid Expansion is a third rail just like Social Security. The GOP is petrified of bad press and polls. I figure the MAGA Republicans will stay home because they think the GOP betrays MAGA and historically due anyway. The Democrats will keep gaslighting that Republicans will kill millions of Americans because of Medicaid cuts. They only need to flip three seats.
Ska-rew that!
Get busy and enact nation-wide FREE MARKET health insurance reforms.
Get rid of "community rating" and "guaranteed issuance".
Bring back underwriting and high-risk pools.
IOW, you HOPE the commies flip 3 seats — so you and the other charter members of Les Miserables Freepers can wag your fingers and sagely say “I told you so.”
It’s always beautiful to see the charter members of Les Miserables Freepers come crawling out of the woodwork.
It’s “To see the driven before you” not “To see them fall at your feet”.
Important stuff, so I had to jump in.
GA has a high number of citizens who do not have health insurance. Most of them qualify for Medicaid but choose to not apply for Medicaid.
At the insistence of the left GA created Pathways Medicaid to reach the uninsured. Pathways is a total failure. Of course, the incompetence of DeLoitte doesn’t help that situation.
Standing outside the Mexican Fresh Market are non-Mexicans trying to sign Mexicans up for welfare. They can’t find a single person to sign up.
Go inside. The average shopper spends $100, mostly on meat and produce for the extended family. Watch closely. Most pay cash. They work cash jobs. They pay cash. A few have credit cards. Very few have EBT/food stamps.
Of all those who qualify for Medicaid/food stamps Mexicans have the highest percentage. Mostly anchor babies of illegals.
It was the same in IL when I was there. Catholic Sisters had a juicy contract to sign people up for welfare programs. The pastor would preach that it was a parents Christian duty to sign up their anchor babies for welfare. The sisters (and an Anglo Deacon) would block the exits until people signed up. The parishioners would run games distracting the Sisters so other parishioners could escape.
As in GA, in IL when I was there, Mexicans (mostly anchor babies) had the highest rate of those eligible for welfare who would not sign up. The left tears their hair out over this, constantly getting funded for programs that will finally get these ignorant fools to understand how beneficial these US government programs can be,.
In a rush...fell for the first one I saw.
Thanks.
He got to keep his insurance while millions lost theirs because it became unaffordable.
I’ve never heard of those Freepers before. Who are they?
I sympathize with this patient and others. But doesn’t this amount to the government subsidizing insurance companies? Is it right that a risk pool is removed from the for-profit companies but there is no incentive to lower premiums or increase the approval rates?
The problem is the government. Wherever the government injects itself into any once private industry prices always substantially increase as the receiving institutions know there is a endless money supply to support their ridiculous price increases. But that is their intent, the government wants everyone to be dependent on them and not act responsibly as individuals
I think the minimum premium share should be 10%. A mere 2% is ridiculous.
“Touching Medicaid Expansion is a third rail just like Social Security.”
State share should be 10% plus state top income tax rate at a minimum.
California pays 10% then might get 13%(top CA personal income tax rate?) back from the doctors for a 3% profit.
Up the state share percentage gradually by 1% per year.
It’s unaffordable without em
No answer here
It’s kind of de facto now
I’ve got four fam on it
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