The Obamacare that Donald Trump pledges to scrap in 2025 is not the same law that the GOP targeted during his first year in office — making it politically uncomfortable for the former president’s fellow Republicans to embrace a wholesale repeal.
More than 40 million people have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, up 50 percent from 2017. New subsidies enacted under the Biden administration have lowered premium costs, boosting the private exchanges. And, since Republicans last attempted to repeal the law, nine red and purple states have opted to expand Medicaid — many by popular vote — taking advantage of the enhanced federal funding Obamacare offers and extending coverage to millions of low-income people.
“Policies have changed,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), whose state’s Medicaid expansion began Friday and is expected to add 600,000 people to the program’s rolls. It would have been one thing, he added, to replace Obamacare “long before” so many states came to rely on it.
Now, he said in an interview Thursday, while he remains critical of the law, “it’s not that simple.”
What has always annoyed the fuck out of me is that Obamacare is an adoption of a Republican healthcare plan, which is why it’s all about making more money for insurance companies. And they know it. The only part they didn’t want was ending pre-existing conditions. That’s why they have never had anything to replace it with. It was their plan.
I know Obama never had the votes for universal healthcare, but I think the Clintons could have done it if they had pushed harder.
Joe Lieberman is to blame for both cases.
I hated that fucker. Just like Manchin, a Republican who pretends to be a Democrat. And they had the temerity to make him Gore’s running mate! So glad he’s out of office.
Hmm… Guillotine
that title is aweful. it makes it sound like trump has a better alternative rather than the system itself is now better and thus harder for him to fight.
Why? Let me guess. It’s more popular now.
It’s big brain time.
