Monday, June 02, 2025

How the GOP Megabill May Roll Back the Affordable Care Act

The massive Republican budget bill working its way through Congress has mostly drawn attention for its tax cuts and Medicaid changes. But it would also take steps to significantly roll back coverage under the Affordable Care Act, with echoes of the 2017 repeal-replace debate.

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"Eight years after trying and failing to repeal Obamacare, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are taking another shot at the seminal health care law." Read more from @jonathancohn.bsky.social in The Breakdown: www.thebulwark.com/p/they-are-i ...

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-- Sarah Longwell (@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM

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... The bill that passed the House before Memorial Day includes an overhaul of ACA marketplaces that would result in coverage losses for millions of Americans and savings to help cover the cost of extending President Trump's tax cuts.

It comes after a growth spurt that saw ACA marketplace enrollment reach new highs, with more than 24 million people enrolling for 2025, according to KFF. The House's changes would likely reverse that trend, unless the Senate goes in a different direction when it picks up the bill next week. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-31 04:16 PM

What do the GOP and the Trump administration have against healthy Americans?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-31 06:16 PM

After my wife retired early (against my advise as her job provided our health insurance, our agreement was that she would work until she was 65, so we'd both be eligible for Medicare), we ended up with insurance from the exchange. When we signed up we were under the impression that the plan would be as good as the insurance she had from her employer. It is nowhere close. We ended up with a ------ United Healthcare plan that has a much higher deductible, larger copays, and premiums that rival most mortgages.

Now it also appears that national level politicos (both parties) are going to undermine Medicare. So when we're finally eligible for that, it's likely to suck as well. At the rate it's going, unless you're really wealthy in the US, elderly healthcare will probably bankrupt you.

US healthcare causes FAR more bankruptcies than anywhere else in the rest of the developed world. ..All for profits and greed.

#3 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-06-01 06:38 PM

One day Republicans will proudly tell their own relatives they are celebrating healthcare cut that cost their relatives life-saving traatments. "Sorry Uncle John, too bad you have to die now." I'd help you out with some of my tax cut savings but selfishness is my favorite virtue!

GQP voter!

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-02 11:02 AM

So? Oh for goodness sake. Whats the problem?

We obviously cannot afford to have a healthy nation and tax cuts for the wealthy, too.

We are ALL gonna die anyway.

Might as well get it over with.

AmIRight maga maroons?

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-02 01:47 PM

So? Oh for goodness sake. Whats the problem?

We obviously cannot afford to have a healthy nation and tax cuts for the wealthy, too.
We are ALL gonna die anyway.
Might as well get it over with.
AmIRight maga maroons?
#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-02 01:47 PM | Reply

First of all the tax cuts have been in existence since 2017. I mean you told us Bidens economy was the best ever and the tax cuts were in place then? Why all of a sudden are they bad now? No need to answer.
If the left was honest they would admit if these cuts are not extended then the average American would see a 20% increase in their taxes.
Medicaid: Since Dems are simply lazy it is understandable that they would be against any able bodied person who doesn't choose to work at all not getting coverage. I mean who cares that that was a requirement when it was set up? Who cares that all you need to do is 20 hours of community service to receive benefits. I mean those that have worked all their lives to get the benefits can just pound sand when they can't get them because their money is going to those who don't deserve them.

#6 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-06-02 02:41 PM

First of all the tax cuts have been in existence since 2017. I mean you told us Bidens economy was the best ever and the tax cuts were in place then? Why all of a sudden are they bad now? No need to answer.

There is a need to answer.

Keep the tax cuts for the middle class ("average Americans") who need them. Eliminate the tax cuts for the wealthy who do NOT need them.

Since Dems are simply lazy..

Since Dems are not "simply lazy" I agree there is no need to answer that made up lie.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-02 02:47 PM

" with echoes of the 2017 repeal-replace debate"

Meaning a promise to repeal, before a single hearing on replacement.

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-02 04:46 PM

t#7 | Posted by donnerboy DB-there's no need to answer fishy, shrimpy, itchy, scotts or any that I left out. They're nothing but a bunch of pea-poor trolls and dumber that a bag of hammers. Eff'em.

#9 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-06-02 05:04 PM

DB-there's no need to answer fishy, shrimpy, itchy, scotts or any that I left out.

That's a Fact!

But it gives me some insight into the maga mind and I like to see what propaganda they are listening to today. It's a deep dark evil place to go but I feel it's important to try and understand it. I am probably wasting my time but we have a long ways to go yet.

And it's something to do while I'm gettin ready for the Big Purge. Or the next big self inflicted crisis.

Semper Fi.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-02 09:22 PM

I am an old man who, truth be told, has as his next upcoming life event...struggle, sickness and death. It is a painful realization but such is life. What people in many other developed nations don't have to deal with, is living without national health care.
We are a stupid people doing stupid things...ignoring the lives of the very poor and sick to pay all the attention and help, to enrich the rich.

#11 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-06-03 09:01 AM

#11: You said it. Thanks to the GOP, the oligarchs, and Trumpf, senior citizens in the US can't enjoy the golden years like their counterparts in other Western countries with universal healthcare and less poverty-inducing crime and violence. Both the young and the old are unhappy in America; we are ranked 24th in the World Happiness Report for a reason: worldhappiness.report

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-03 09:35 AM

"First of all the tax cuts have been in existence since 2017. I mean you told us Bidens economy was the best ever and the tax cuts were in place then? Why all of a sudden are they bad now? No need to answer."

You don't want to hear the answer.
You also won't accept the answer is true.
The answer is Trump is spending more than Biden.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-03 11:35 AM

I rolled off eight years of ACA (expensive as hell, considering premiums plus out-of-pocket; still prohibitive to seek health care except for dire things), right into Trump's healthcare follies. I'm using my Original Medicare while I can. As a freelancer for all my solid earning years, I've paid enough into it.

First thing, attention to torn rotator cuff(s) . . . partially from worry (you can look it up) over healthcare expenses and medical debt that didn't get settled until the sale of a house.

Free Luigi.

#14 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-06-03 01:39 PM

Nazi Leon calls the-------------'s big, beautiful bill an abomination.

www.washingtonpost.com

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-03 02:31 PM

Oh by the way, happy anniversary to twenty years of Trump promising a better health care plan.

#16 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-06-03 05:12 PM

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