Originally published at: ACA Reaches Peak Enrollment Just In Time For House Republicans’ Trump II Plan: ‘No Obamacare’ - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The White House put out a fact sheet today highlighting record-breaking enrollment under the Affordable Care Act during the Biden administration. During the current enrollment period, almost 24 million Americans have signed up for health insurance plans under Obamacare, meaning the number of Americans covered through the ACA has almost doubled since President Biden took…
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Hateful people saying and doing hateful things. The Republican Party remains a crime against humanity, hurting people every day, sometimes by ignorance alone, often by ignorance and intent.
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OT: Brittany Pettersen, a freshman Dem in the House, is about to go on maternity leave and Speaker Skippy McMaggot has denied her the right to proxy vote. What do you think about that? I’m gonna go eat my dinner. I’ll be back later.
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Outrageous.
If Speaker G-dbother really believed all that fetus-is-a-person malarkey, he’d give her two votes!
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Think of the possibilities of twins! In all seriousness, someone needs to call this out. I bet Scalise got to proxy vote after (1) gunshot wound, (2) cancer treatment.
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If they do replace it, it will be called Trump Care.
Obama’s name must be removed from history like anything that does not have Trump’s name.
We will become the United World of Trump.
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The so-called GOP “replacement” for ACA has been vaporware for a number of years now. No specifics, no substance, and (most importantly) no insurance program worthy of the name to replace what they want us to get rid of.
The GOP has been doing this sort of thing since FDR initiated Social Security.
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“We want to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state. These agencies have been weaponized against the people. It’s crushing the free market; it’s like a boot on the neck of job creators and entrepreneurs and risk takers.
Oh but of course, let’s have a free market, so that the free market can slam its boot on the neck of the real job creators and risk takers - the working people who will be crushed by Trump and his buddy billionaires who give a damn about nothing other than their own bank accounts.
This country was built by working people, by people working. Trump and Musk’s pockets are filled with the cash they took from the blood and sweat of workers. Rich people never create anything. They just suck the life out of everyone else.
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Health care should not be a business, and health insurance companies should not exist.
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And this is hardly a recent realization, nor one held only by those without power:
On Labor and Capital, President Abraham Lincoln
(Message to Congress on December 3, 1861)"It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor…
Now, there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
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That’s a bingo!
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Abe Lincoln was familiar with labor, having done actual manual labor.
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So the Convicted Soon to be Sentenced (yay!) Felon has “got some ideas” about fixing healthcare. When, nine (9) years ago, he knew exactly how to do it, better! and cheaper!! Ditto four years ago. And yet again.
Yeah, that one never grows old.
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Just when did the Party of Abraham Lincoln go wrong? And why? (Kind of a rhetorical question, I know, but I keep hoping some historians, credentialed or amateur, have some ideas.)
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Roy Cohn, plus southern strategy
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So Republicans want to get rid of Obamacare/ACA. Won’t they think of the entitled rich health insurance executives? That’s going to hurt their bottom line, and country club memberships.
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You might argue mid-60s. Go team Dixiecrat.
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One of my dear friends owns her own 1-person business, so she relies on ACA insurance. She needs both knees replaced and she’s been rushing to schedule the surgery while she still has insurance. Obamacare is hardly crushing the job creators and risk-takers–it’s making their world possible.
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Nor should for-profit hospitals.
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These record enrollment numbers are the result of several Biden administration initiatives, the White House said, primarily their successes in working with Democrats in Congress to pass legislation that expanded federal subsidies to help cut the cost of premiums.
It’s a shame they forgot to tell anyone.
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