Posted on 11/27/2025 8:44:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump is reportedly delaying his healthcare plan after House Republicans pushed back on his idea to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Trump that the subsidy extension is a no-go for many Republicans in Congress.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the speaker “cautioned the White House that most Republicans don’t have an appetite for extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies , according to people familiar with the matter, showing how hard it will be politically to stave off sharp increases in healthcare costs next year for many Americans.”
This comes after the Schumer Shutdown finally ended earlier this month. Much of the impasse centered on the subsidies, with Democrats demanding an extension and Republicans refusing.
Trump and his team have been working on a proposal that would have extended the subsidies by two more years so that millions of Americans could avoid skyrocketing premiums when the subsidies expire at the end of the year.
Nobody in the media wants to highlight this part of Trump’s healthcare plan, but he said it straight:
“Instead of giving hundreds of billions of dollars to these money-sucking insurance companies, we’re going to give it to the American people.”
He blasted Obamacare for creating “a corrupt system where insurers get rich, premiums explode, and families get nothing but pain.”Then he laid out the alternative:
“We want you to buy your own plan, not be forced into the garbage the insurance companies sell under Obamacare.”
And the line that blows up the entire system:
“People should get the money — not the insurance companies.”
pic.twitter.com/TUpN8KPKRM— Jake (@JakeCan72) November 13, 2025
President Trump’s plan would also limit the subsidies to people with incomes up to 700 percent of the federal poverty line , according to Politico. However, not all Republican lawmakers are against extending the subsidies. The report notes that “GOP moderates and lawmakers in competitive seats are anxiously throwing bills together, worried about the political fallout that could await them if the subsidies expire at year’s end and premiums skyrocket.”
Some Republicans, including Trump, have floated the idea of sending money directly to consumers so they can purchase their own insurance. But this idea has not quite gained the level of traction needed to push through legislation.
Still, several bipartisan proposals are in the running. Representatives Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) introduced the Bipartisan Healthcare Optimization Protection Extension (HOPE) Act, which would extend enhanced premium tax credits for two years with an income cap of approximately $200,000 for a family of four. The proposal would also include anti-fraud provisions.
“I don’t care how red or blue your district is, this is something that your constituents care about,” Hurd said.
If the subsidies are allowed to lapse, it could affect about 20 to 23 million Americans who would face heightened premiums. A Colorado Polling Institute pull found that three out of four Coloradans want Congress to extend the tax credits. A majority viewed healthcare costs as a major problem.
The issue of subsidies is the kryptonite that will eliminate the ACA. The brilliance of Obamacare as a form of masking the internal subsidies that are being paid between purchasers of the private market coverage under the ACA. If self-employed professionals who are paying north of $2,000/month for a “Silver plan” were aware that more than 50% of their premium was used to subsidize others’ premiums, political support for this charade would disappear.
Trump needs to let the temporary subsidies expire and, by executive order if necessary, instruct insurers to make fully transparent the breakdown of premiums between payments for the individual taxpayer’s coverage and subsidies to lower others’ premiums. Problem of political support for Obamacare, solved.
Then the GOP needs to come up with an alternative plan. We have only been waiting for 15 YEARS for these idiots to have a viable alternative.
It’s a huge blind spot for the GOP and it’s going to bite them in the ass in 2026.
EXCELLENT Post!
“Subsidies” for healthcare..... We seem to subsidize the world these days.
They also need to consider the exorbitant amounts of money being funneled into the HMO hierarchy.
They are making a shitload of money to “manage” healthcare.
A Government Healthcare Plan is antithetical to Federalism, and Enumerated Powers, and Limited Government, so I don't follow your argument.
The only thing that will bite Republicans in the ass is failure to repeal the ACA when they had the opportunity to do so.
If Democrats want it, have them demand it be mandatory for anyone with out employer or private health insurance, as the original bill required.
Second, take steps to reduce horrific drug manager costs used by health insurance companies that make copay far higher than the cash prices of drugs and what Medicare pays (which is also higher than the cash price of the drugs, which yields extreme profits for the health insurance company for each drug prescribed.
The situation screams for different States to define their own solution sets via a block grant program set to decline and expire.
Let them raise their own taxes.
Well then, what DO Republicans "have an appetite for"?
Certainly not for being the government of this country.
“Republicans don’t have an appetite for extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies
Well then, what DO Republicans “have an appetite for”?
Certainly not for being the government of this country.”
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At least since Reagan, Republicans have taken great pride in being the “know-nothing” party for actually governing as a majority. They claim government is the problem, and then prove their claim when in the majority.
Clearly. These brainwaves Do not have much of a stomach for Censuring cretins or the Seditious 6 either.
This was an emergency measure. The emergency is over. Now the Democrats want the benefits extended. Typical.
Omg. Common ground with Bob Wills is still the king. Be still my beating heart. There may be hope for our planet just yet! :-)
It’s about time “health care “ was restored as a service industry to Americans rather than Americans serving the insurance companies quarterly profits
He doesn’t need all Republicans for it to pass. He just needs some
You are 100% right on PRINCIPLE but the POLITICS of this in the current environment are pretty toxic. Being right doesn’t prevent you from getting shellacked and those who choose to ignore that do so at their own peril…
“marketplace” premiums according to one’s taxable income — socialism
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