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A majority of Trump supporters back extending Obamacare subsidies, poll finds (www.nbcnews.com)
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Without the tax credits, people will lose coverage, putting their health and finances at risk, experts say.

Most of Donald Trump’s supporters back keeping enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans, the central obstacle in ending the government shutdown, according to a new poll from the nonpartisan health policy research group KFF. It was conducted Sept. 23 through Sept. 29, just days before Congress failed to pass a funding measure to keep the government open.

More than 22 million people receive the subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year unless Congress extends them. Losing the subsidies could mean that average out-of-pocket premium payments could double in 2026, from $888 a year to $1,904, an earlier KFF analysis  found.

Around 4 million people are projected to go without coverage next year because they can no longer afford it, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Extending them would cost the federal government around $350 billion over the next decade.

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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They hate Obamacare. ACA is great. Keep it going.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It grinds my gears so much that organizations like NPR still refer to it as Obamacare in their reporting. Its a cutesy/cringey nickname at best, and a slur at worst.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Well, most of the same orgs will sit there and let some Republican douchebag say "the Democrat Party" over and over again with no questions and no corrections on the part of the person doing the interview. The person doing the talking knows full well what they are doing, and so does the org. It's totally infuriating. The least they could do is just to ask: "You know the right name for the Democratic Party. You are a powerful person in a highly public position. Why don't you use the right name?"

    So something like "Hillarycare" or "Obamacare" is not at all surprising...it's the same way they treat the J6 terrorists. Calling them insurrectionists is being kind. But many orgs bend over backwards and often call them "rioters". As if it was just a concert that got out of hand, instead of something that was fucking planned.

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    • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    And they will continue to vote for and support politicians who promise to do the opposite.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    A majority of trump voters are goddamned fucking idiots.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Well, good job, dipshits! You think Taco or the conservatives or the Republicans give a fuck about you?

    You got to own the libs! That should be enough to sustain you, right? You'll be able to pay your medical bills with liberal tears! Did you get your jollies while you watched children being zip-tied and disappeared in U-Hauls? You probably fell for that Qanon "Save The Children" shit, too, right? You get to watch universities repeal any decent treatment of trans and POC. Same for companies. Oh, and the military - no more of that gay stuff. And women will be put back in their place, and we can have government start indoctrinating people, including children, into xtianity again.

    You'll cheer as dissident voices, even in the form of mild satire on late night TV, is pulled off the air, so you don't have to be offended by something you won't watch anyway. All that will put food on the table, amirite! Buck up, if you can still afford the internet, you can share some dank memes in the brosphere even if you have to declare bankruptcy and eat cat food to get by...

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    "It's affecting ME!!!"

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Polling matters not to a narcissist.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It seems they don’t, because of they did, they wouldn’t be his supporters…

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    You fail to understand the power of being an illiterate dumbass, all the time, every day, 24/7.

    The man on the TV said the thing I agree with, I think!

    ... thats it, that's the level of cognition going on here.

    Well, that and Trump is basically personally appointed by Jesus himself to do what he does, according to most of these idiot's pastors.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Oh, well a majority of Trump supporters explicitly voted to end those subsidies, so maybe at this point they should all just be purged from the voter rolls if they are definitionally too stupid to be trusted with voting.

    Oh well, natural selection plays out either way I guess, sucks that these idiots are collectively going to be responsible for millions of unnecessary deaths, but I guess at least a large chunk of those deaths are themselves...

    ... its like with covid and not wearing masks, getting vaxxed.

    Stay as safe as you can and at least a lot of these morons will kill themselves, with extra steps, sorry we can't have nice things, idiots decided to idiot harder.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Lmao trump should pull a 180 and rebrand it to TrumpCare®.

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