The White House has shown little urgency in extending the subsidies until shutdown ends.

Republicans are barreling toward the upcoming Obamacare enrollment period without a unified plan to address the sticker shock that millions of Americans are likely to experience due to the expiration of key federal subsidies.

The lack of direction comes from the top, with Trump not providing clear guidance to his party on how he wants to deal with the expiring subsidies that could result in dramatic out-of-pocket price hikes for enrollees.

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[–] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the biggest welfare scandal in the US right now. Congress is refusing to go to work, but still getting fully paid.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Public servants above a certain level need to be restricted to investments in index funds, the insider trading nets them more than kickbacks and PAC donations.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    This administration is doing just fine at manipulating index funds.

    Really, federal congresspeople shouldn't need investments at all. A savings account or government bonds are enough. We can pay them a bit more to compensate if needed.

    But they shouldn't have any corporate dependency.

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    [–] 52 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm sure their "plan" is to just let people die. They don't care about anyone except their inner circle.

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  • [–] 111 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The government cannot afford to keep subsidizing people’s lifestyles. If you want to be healthy then you need to pay for it. Because we have to build a giant gold ball room baby! It’s going to be gorgeous and we are not invited.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    To all you morons down-voting: this is called sarcasm.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don’t be bothering him with such petty things, don’t you know he has SOOOOOO much on his plate with the peace talks and whitehouse renovations. Why do you bother an old, troubled mind with such terrible things?

    /s for those that need it

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do they have a game plan for what they're going to do after they implode the entirety of the countries government economy or are they just stupid? Like this could easily destroy the entire Health Care industry, not just the insurance companies by creating a death spiral. Like yeah sure they're full of crazy people and this stuff used to be just empty rhetoric for they had the power to realize it but this doesn't seem like the smartest plan

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago*

    Their game plan is to put all their money in crypto, foreign currency, and gold, which they are betting will hold its value after the US economy implodes. Then the entire US will be up for sale at "cheap" prices, relative to their currencies, while everyone with dollars gets screwed.

    Yes, they might utterly destroy the finances of most of us in the pprocess, but they don't care! They just want to own it all.

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

    Like this could easily destroy the entire Health Care industry, not just the insurance companies by creating a death spiral

    It's not that the industry is dead - it's just that health insurance companies are insanely parasitic and are about to kill the host. The death-spiral already started and there simply isn't enough money to rebuild or 'reform' a privatized healthcare system where insurance companies sit at all the choke points.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Don't worry the Republican better healthcare plan is about to unveilied. First we need to get through infrastruture week

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's called Obamacare, so obviously Obama is to blame!

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