Posted on 09/30/2026 11:09:39 AM PDT by CFW
The White House began mailing $500 refund checks on Wednesday to nearly 1 million Americans the Trump administration says were overcharged for their ObamaCare insurance.
The Treasury Department checks will go out to more than 950,000 Americans across 30 states who use healthcare.gov, the federal health insurance marketplace, the Hill reported.
"For years, the Biden administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now I’m returning it to you!” President Trump wrote in a letter that will be sent with the checks.
Approximately 19.2 million people enrolled in Affordable Care Act coverage, and only a fraction of them are eligible for the checks, most of whom live in Florida and Texas.
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Buying votes is a solid strategy.
Trumps signature will be on the checks. I am ok with that.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trumps-name-to-be-printed-on-stimulus-checks
Great.
I bought it only because I didn’t understand the penalties which looked pretty dang’d severe and when I got another job, they had insurance.
I look forward to my refund...
Awesome
I’ll make a copy of mine and frame it
So, I think Obamacare is an abomination and unconstitutional, but it’s law for now, and these people were overcharged $500. They shouldn’t get their money back... why?
Sorry. This is Conservatism 101.
There have been no penalties for not carrying insurance since Trump’s first term.
this was before Trump...who I blame for the most serious hangover I’ve ever had after it was announced he had won
I was like “Okay, still a super wealthy guy but, politically, a Horatio Algiers story”
He ranks with Reagan but, seriously looking and feeling more like he is exceeding him....
I broke down crying over Reagan’s grave as I gave thanks to God for him and look forward to a similar experience at Trumps grave but, that bass tard is so tough, he’ll probably out live me just to show others how it’s done...
“Sorry. This is Conservatism 101.”
Really? You’re going to analyze this in a vacuum? You’re not going to factor in the $5000 if the GOP wins the midterms? You’re not going to question the timing of this fix, right before the midterms?
Call it what you will, I’m all in for doing whatever it takes to win. Because the alternative is much much worse.
So you think it’s OK for the federal govt. to overcharge residents of FL and TX for federally-mandated medical insurance?
How is that ethical?
But refunding the over charge is “buying votes”? Do you also consider income tax refunds as “buying votes”?
Gee....Biden must have missed this opportunity. Dems rob their own dens.
“The White House began mailing $500 refund checks on Wednesday”. Do I get one for being on Medicare?
There has been no penalty for no insurance since it was passed to know what was in it.
I only had health insurance for 4 years out of the last 14.
Can’t afford it is checked on my taxes, and the penalty is gone.
The moment a dollar flows into the government coffers it is a deadly sin to want it back.
12.4% is paid from the first dollar you make but if you draw SS you are a leach, same for Medicare that you paid 2.9% out of every paycheck with no limit and now have to pay for part B. How DARE you.
But the real venom is reserved for people drawing unemployment. FUTA is calculated into your cost of employment from the beginning, your work paid for it. But drawing it means that you are a horrible person.
Only if you were overcharged.
They shouldn’t get their money back... why?
Because they were subsidized with taxpayer money to begin with?
Trump handing 1 million Americans Obamacare refund checks in 30 states
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-handing-1-million-americans-obamacare-refund-checks-30-states
I came here to see if anyone had news on this. I didn’t know.
Then my nephew was talking to me yesterday, and their mail came and they got this check! I don’t think they knew what it was about.
Then he read the letter with it. Ok. Lots of typical Trump bluster and sniping as usual, thinking that will sell the recipients on him and against democrats.
Hey, I’m glad for them, but again, it’s another socialist principle yet again from Trump.
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