Donner,
"And suddenly you are worried about someone sabotaging' Trumpy's hateful agenda?"
Think for a second.
It wasn't Trump who created the ACA.
It wasn't Trump who put the sunset clause in the subsidies.
The mess we're in now is due to how the last COVID-era extension was written. The enhancements were written to be temporary and are now expiring.
So how exactly is this "Trump's hateful agenda"?
Simply, we're at a fork in the road.
Either Congress comes up with something new, or ACA premiums explode and the message to people is basically: "Tough luck, just pay it."
You're so busy trying to pin this on Trump that you're ignoring the actual problem. Cost and the design of the entire healthcare support structure.
That attitude isn't being resistant. It's simply counterproductive and doesn't make sense.
If Democrats in Congress behave the way you are, then healthcare benefits for the poor are finished until someone addresses it again.
What needs to be addressed now is cost controls and the reality that people in employer group plans are getting hit harder every year.
The company might cover the employee portion, but family coverage is often pushed partly or even mostly onto the employee. Deductibles in group plans keep rising while coverage shrinks. The ACA didn't fix any of that because the employer plan cost shift hadn't hit the critical stage yet.
Since the time ACA was implemented, some problems improved, but other problems, especially rising deductibles, and cost shifting in employer plans, have only gotten worse.
Lastly, many employers offer tiered plans such as Bronze and Gold options. Managers often receive access to the Gold tier while regular employees end up in the Bronze tier, which is legal under ACA guidelines but puts a heavy cost burden on families.
This imbalance is one more reason the ACA needs to be updated or replaced with a system that directly addresses today's issues including cost controls and fairness in employer sponsored plans.
