Posted on 11/08/2025 10:08:50 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
COVID-era ACA subsidies linked to $27B in fraud from 6.4M improper enrollments, analysis shows
Democrats are holding the government hostage in an extended government shutdown over temporary, COVID-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that were meant to make health insurance cheaper – or free – for millions of Americans during the pandemic. But like most pandemic relics, the cost of these subsidies far outweighs any potential benefits.
Rather than forcing an extension of the temporary, bumped-up subsidies through the spending bill, policymakers should allow them to expire at the end of the year and focus instead on healthcare reforms that actually help patients.
According to Democrats, including Joe Biden, inflated COVID-era ACA subsidies were always meant to be a temporary "economic bridge through the crisis," not a permanent expansion of government. But now, Democrats are claiming that returning to pre-COVID Obamacare would be a catastrophe – a not-so-tacit admission that the health insurance scheme they’ve lauded the past 15 years is no good. And it isn’t.
As mothers managing healthcare for our families, we’ve lived the healthcare system’s failures. When Mary Katharine was seven months pregnant and her husband tragically passed away, she was informed that she’d lost her third or fourth health insurance plan since the ACA passed, leaving her with a costly, ineffective plan, despite the Obamacare promise that she could keep her insurance if she liked it.
NOW IS THE TIME TO NUKE THE FILIBUSTER
To make the already broken ACA system worse, Biden’s emergency measure increased the dollar amount of ACA subsidies and expanded the number of people eligible for taxpayer support. Rather than helping the needy, these subsidies go straight to insurance companies – padding their profits at the expense of American taxpayers and creating a breeding ground for...
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People need to go to prison for fraud over this at the least.
I could care less, I am GLAD the government is closed!
I am 100% ok with Democrats keeping it closed permanently!
IF they break the filibuster, then they need to definitey go for broke and pass every single thing that Trump wants....EVERYTHING. Shove it right square up their big, old, commie arses....
Paying Ransom to them sets a bad precedent. The price rises the next time
If you made stealing from the government a crime, you’d have to lock up half of congress.
Do not give them an inch
LADIES-—ASK YOURSELF—:
HOW MANY ILLEGALS ARE SUCKING THIS COUNTRY DRY-—THIS IS JUST ONE AREA/EXAMPLE.
ACA
SNAP
SCHOOLS
JOBS
HOSPITALS
The ACA was passed with a filibuster proof supermajority. Democrats pushed the goal at the end to be single payer state run healthcare.
Bkmk
Stop ACA!
Stop it now.
Cloward and Piven.
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