For decades, laws have always taken a few years to kick in. Trump isn't the Republican first to take credit for a Democrat president policy.

Oh and half the time these laws don't actually need to take that long to kick in. Many could be instant, but just aren't for no reason.

I like the Japanese system if one is going to have a for profit medical system. That is all products and services have a capped profit and hospitals must list prices.. way better than the game of insurance companies hiking up prices so your copay is the same price as the original item or treatment.

Just wait til January. That's when the majority of the One Big Buttfucked Bill passed last summer takes effect.

The Republicans decimated healthcare across the board, diverting over a trillion dollars from Medicaid and ACA alone, but that's not actually the worst of it.

We don't know the worst of it yet because we haven't seen the worst of it yet.

Anticipating the usual midterm majority party switch, the Republicans made sure the biggest hits wouldn't take effect until after November 2026 -- the midterms -- so they could blame the Democrats.

They literally have this steal credit/deflect blame schtick baked into their SOP now.

I thought it was going to be a reduction close to 600%