Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire in just weeks -- which would more than double the cost of premiums nationally for tens of millions of Americans.
The shutdown ended after a small group of Democrats made a deal with GOP senators who promised a vote by mid-December on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies. But there is no guaranteed outcome, and many Republicans have made clear they want the credits to expire. https://to.pbs.org/4oEUemx
-- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) Nov 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Pres-elect Trump on healthcare:
"We're going to have insurance for everybody ... There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us."
-- Pres-elect Trump to the Washington Post in January 2017
Pres Trump on healthcare:
"Our healthcare plan will lower premiums & deductibles -- and be great healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in May 2017
Candidate Trump on deal-making
June 16, 2015 - we need a leader that wrote the Art of the Deal
October 14, 2015 - I will negotiate deals that nobody can negotiate like I do. Nobody is going to be able to do the kind of things I can do.
December 3, 2015 - I believe, because I'm a deal-maker, I believe that I can put both sides together.
Trump on classified docs
August 18, 2016 - In my Administration, I am going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.
( www.politico.com )
September 6, 2016 - ...one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules, and enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information..
( thehill.com )
Trump on Shutdown under Pres Obama
9/30/13 - Who gets fired? It always has to be the top. Problems start from the top and have to get solved from the top. The President's the leader. Five years, 50 years, a 100 years from now, when they talk about the government shutdown, they're going to be talking about the President of the United States and who was the President at that time.
4/7/11 - If there was a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States. I hear the Democrats are going to be blamed, and the Republicans are going to be blamed. I actually think the President would be blamed.
4/7/11 - I'm a deal man. I made hundreds and hundreds of deals and transactions. He never did deals before. How can you expect a man that is not a deal man, that never did a deal, other than, frankly, becoming President of the United States. He never did a deal. How is he going to corral all these people? I'd get everybody together, and we'd have a budget. The President of the United States has to get this done. The shutdown is pretty said because the whole world is looking at us and laughing at us.
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@#18
thx for that update.
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Trump said he has 'concepts' of a health care plan. What we know about his policies (September 11. 2024)
abcnews.go.com
... Health care was one of the topics at the forefront of Tuesday night's debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump said he was interested in replacing the Affordable Care Act -- also known as "Obamacare" -- but implied that he didn't have any specific plans in place.
"Obamacare was lousy health care. Always was," Trump said. "It's not very good today and, what I said, that if we come up with something, we are working on things, we're going to do it and we're going to replace it."
When asked by ABC News moderator Linsey Davis to clarify if he had a health care plan, the former president said he had "concepts of a plan" to replace the ACA but provided no details.
"If we can come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population, less money and be better health care than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it," Trump said.
"But if we come up with something, I would only change it if we come up with something better and less expensive," he said later in the debate. "And there are concepts and options we have to do that. And you'll be hearing about it in the not-too-distant future." ...
@#22 ... The sad part is how much the MAGA aficionados have bought into those lies, and still believe them. ...
Reminds me of the old pre-DSotM soundtrack Pink Floyd song ...
Pink Floyd - Childhood's End (1972)
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Lyrics and Composition
en.wikipedia.org(Pink_Floyd_song)
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Lyrics and composition
"Childhood's End" is about the stress and pressure of becoming an adult and being faced with difficult decisions on one's own.
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Another pre-DSotM soundtrack Pink Floyd song appeared on a playlist here ...
Pink Floyd - Cymbaline (1969)
www.youtube.com
... "Cymbaline" is a Pink Floyd song from the album Soundtrack from the Film More.[1][2]
Lyrics
Its lyrics vividly tell the tale of a "nightmare", which was the title of the song when it was first introduced in Floyd's The Man and The Journey Tour shows. The lyrics include a reference to the character Doctor Strange, who was popular at the time due to the psychedelic nature of his adventures and who had appeared on the cover of their previous album A Saucerful of Secrets. ...
Yeah, the pre-DSotM Pink Floyd albums, when Pink Floyd was doing a lot of soundtrack work, were quite interesting.
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