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    1. vox on

      Health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are set to soar after Congress failed Thursday to pass a last-minute plan to avert the rate hikes.

      [As many as four million people](https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2024-12/59230-ARPA.pdf) could be forced to go uninsured, because they can no longer afford their health plan. I spoke with [some of them](https://www.vox.com/health/468555/health-insurance-uninsured-affordable-care-act-government-shutdown) earlier this fall. These are working parents, entrepreneurs, and retirees — all now facing impossible choices because of the loss of their government aid.

      Read more: [https://www.vox.com/health/471965/health-insurance-marketplace-aca-tax-credits-expire](https://www.vox.com/health/471965/health-insurance-marketplace-aca-tax-credits-expire)

    2. Ancient_Popcorn on

      You can safely blame Republicans for 99% of the problems in America since Reagan.

    4. DELETE_OH_NINE on

      I’ll continue to blame Republicans for everything. If there’s a bad, inhumane, stupid, insane policy being pushed, it’s because of a Republican.

    5. spiritfiend on

      >Conservatives haven’t taken health policy seriously for decades.

      I disagree. They’ve been very serious about using healthcare as a means to extract money from the masses.

    7. Late-Dingo-8567 on

      … obviously I blame the gop… but I’m still pissed the democrats caved and reopened the government for nothing.  

      Snap is being gutted, save is being gutted, and there are no aca subsidy extensions. 

    10. Organic_Battle_597 on

      I blame anybody who does not support medicare for all.

      Maybe once we cross 50% of people on a public health plan the momentum will shift.

    11. Descent900 on

      I also blame democrats of Obama’s first term. They had a super majority and could have given us single payer. They instead negotiated against themselves for a half-baked system in the hopes of getting Republican votes, and got none.

    13. RioRancher on

      Blame the ruling class that needs you married to an employer via an obnoxiously expensive healthcare plan

    16. cwk415 on

      Ironically the main reason conservatives opposed the ACA was because of the mandate, despite it coming straight out of a conservative plan, specifically the heritage foundation’s:

      >In the early 1990s, during Bill and Hillary Clinton’s push for sweeping health care reform, conservatives were scrambling for a counterproposal. The Clintons had put forth a plan aiming for universal coverage, managed competition among insurers, and employer mandates. It was bold, and it scared a lot of people, especially Republicans.

      >Enter: The Heritage Foundation.
      Their proposal? Require individuals to purchase private insurance (the infamous “individual mandate”), penalize large employers who didn’t offer coverage, and create subsidized marketplaces to help people buy insurance. Sound familiar? That’s because it’s the basic structure of what later became the ACA.

      ETA link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-aca-everyone-s-still-fighting-over-it-was-originally-the-heritage-foundation-s-idea-yes-really/ar-AA1Q9XBf

      Reposting because comment was apparently auto-removed because of r/politics ridiculous over the top rules against using bold text..? 

    17. dc1999 on

      This all could of been solved with a public option as part of the ACA. Thank Joe Liberman.

    20. Shradow on

      For most of our messes. People will try to claim both sides and anyone doing so is just a fucking idiot.

    21. marlinspike on

      At leasat we have „The Concepts of a Plan“, almost 30 years since the modern push for a Public Health Care option came up seriously.

      We don’t even vote on the basis of real issues, so this is what we get.

    22. bobfromsanluis on

      Let’s not forget that not only have the Republicans tried (and failed) to overturn the ACA some 17 or so times, but they have also stripped several key provisions of the ACA to make it more cumbersome, less effective and harder for most people to use and in some cases, harder to qualify. An ex Florida Congressman (sorry don’t remember his name) famously stood up on the floor of the House and called out Republicans stating that their only plan for health care / insurance was for us to die, and die quickly. Due to how badly most Americans are going to be effected by their refusal to address the issue in a serious manner, the attitude of a majority of Americans are now ready for a single payer system, AKA, Medicare for All.

    23. mountaindoom on

      I mean, Democrats even tried to work a handout to insurance companies to help us out and it still wasn’t enough for today’s Rs.

    24. ClassicHando on

      Republicans have been trying to kill it since it was a thing. Im more than happy to put the requisite blame on coward chuck

    26. nitelotion on

      Just went through open enrollment, I’m getting the worst plan my company offers versus their best plan I was enrolled in last year. And my premiums have over doubled in costs.

    27. nunswithknives on

      My health insurance cost is going from ~$700 a month to ~$1600 a month. We can’t afford that so we have to go without health insurance. I’m so scared and angry right now.

    28. plumberfun on

      The truth Republicans don’t believe facts or anything that might have a basis in science.

    29. BarkerBarkhan on

      We do, and frankly, it is one reason to hope that our politics may soon take another drastic shift, this time against Republicans.

      Even when Democrats are down, the public trusts them more on healthcare. The ACA fight and aftermath was a brutal propaganda war, but ultimately, people noticed significant improvements in the system after the ACA provisions came online.

      Clearly it’s not perfect, which is why you are seeing so much support for its expansion or even some form of Medicare For All, even if it starts by enabling everyone opt into Medicare. That public option was the major casualty of the process to get the ACA passed.

      I just wish that people would tear down the silos and realize that „healthcare“ is „the economy,“ and that it doesn’t make sense to trust Republicans on „the economy“ but not „healthcare,“ since healthcare is such an incredibly important economic sector.

    33. sirgarynipz on

      No. Blame insurance companies. They fucked over obamacare. Insurance companies should be forced to be non-profit.

    35. wrestlingchampo on

      I can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time

      The GOP is more responsible for the current health insurance situation, but I am not about to forget about Chuck Schumer’s caving on the Government Shutdown no more than 1 month ago

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