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Friday, December 12, 2025

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a motion to advance a Democrat-drafted bill to extend enhanced health insurance premium subsidies that are due to expire at the end of 2025 ...

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We put forward a straightforward bill: extend the health care tax credits to prevent premiums from skyrocketing. Because Congressional Republicans voted down our bill, millions will see their premiums double -- or lose their insurance altogether.

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-- Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar.com) Dec 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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@#33 ... No one in this country of 337,000,000 people is going to get any kind of reasonably priced healthcare with the insurance lobby standing between them and their HCP. ...

If that is the real problem to solve, what is Pres Trump doing to solve it?

From nearly a decade ago ...

Yet Pres Trump still seems to have nothing besides a promise of ~something coming soon...~

...
Candidate Trump on healthcare:

May 21, 2015
I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

Sept 25, 2015
Everybody's got to be covered.

Feb 17, 2016
We're going to have great plans. They're going to be much less expensive and they're going to be much better.

Oct 25, 2016
You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it is going to be so easy.

Nov 13, 2016
It will be better healthcare, much better for less money. Not a bad combination.

"I'm not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid."
-- Trump to the Daily Signal in May 2015

"We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in February 2016

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
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Where is the plan?


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-13 12:37 AM | Reply

@#33 ... As I said earlier, we'd be better off had we never passed ACA. ...

Yeah, the GOP also seems to have said that.

But my question is, why would Americans be better off without ACA?

Yer up.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-13 12:40 AM | Reply

ACA saved my ass,Twice. Through the Medicaid expansion .

---- these ------- nonentities.

They are Callous and Stupid.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-13 04:12 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

As I said earlier, we'd be better off had we never passed ACA.

Who is this "we"?

"We" would be better off if "we" do nothing?

"We" would be better off if idiots like you were never born.

If we had not passed the ACA:

Over 20 million Americans gained coverage through ACA subsidies and Medicaid expansion; this would be reversed, increasing the uninsured rate significantly.

Insurers could again deny coverage or charge much higher premiums for people with health issues, and lifetime/annual dollar limits on benefits would return.

Federal funding for Medicaid expansion would disappear, leaving millions of low-income adults without coverage and straining state budgets.

The ability for young adults to stay on parents' plans until age 26 would end.

No free preventive care (cancer screenings, birth control, vaccines), costing consumers billions.

"Fake" Plans would offer less comprehensive coverage, with more gaps in essential benefits like maternity, mental health, and prescription drugs.

More people would face medical debt, delayed care, and worse health outcomes, disproportionately affecting lower incomes.

In essence, the U.S. would revert to a fragmented system with widespread coverage gaps, greater financial risk for individuals, and weakened safety nets, exacerbating existing health and economic disparities.

In other words.. Trumpy'sNoCare Plan.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-13 07:44 AM | Reply

Guys, there are a litany of western European models for healthcare that the US could follow. But let's be honest, USans are really only interested in plans that they can make someone else pay for.

#5 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-12-13 08:13 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Guys, there are a litany of western European models ...

You mean government run universal healthcare?

Why are you telling us?

We know. This has been pointed out over and over.

But then the lobbyists and mags maroons come along and cry Socialism!

And you know we can't be having any of that nasty stuff here.

Congress has already shown it would let our own children die first before they offend a lobbyist.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-13 08:20 AM | Reply

If that is the real problem to solve, what is Pres Trump doing to solve it?

#34 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-13 12:37 AM | Reply | Flag:

The real question is why didn't Obummer's plan work. Now it's somehow someone else's fault.

There is no plan that will satisfy you are anyone else in your party, because there is no free plan where you don't have to pay. Health care is something you should be preparing for instead of crying because other's won't pay for yours.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-13 10:48 AM | Reply

Prepare by voting In the right people to enact a Universal Healthcare System?

I'm Down.

#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-13 11:46 AM | Reply

The health plan of the company where my brother works has gone up in cost and guess what, he has to pay that increase as gets no govt tax dollars to aid him.....

Even those o Social Security and have/need Part B have again had an increase and that comes out of the SocSec payments.

How any of you here have a plan where the costs have risen in recent years and who is paying for that increase/difference for you???

#9 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-12-13 12:38 PM | Reply

The health plan of the company where my brother works has gone up in cost and guess what, he has to pay that increase as gets no govt tax dollars to aid him.....

Even those o Social Security and have/need Part B have again had an increase and that comes out of the SocSec payments.

How any of you here have a plan where the costs have risen in recent years and who is paying for that increase/difference for you???

#10 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-12-13 12:38 PM | Reply

"You mean government run universal healthcare?"

Those are a thing, but the government runs programs don't deliver the quality that the private plans do.

The good news-you can actually have both. Private plans for those who want to pay for them, and the government plans for those that don't.

Until USans become willing to accept the implementation of a VAT, I don't think any government-run program would work.

#11 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-12-14 04:46 AM | Reply

"But then the lobbyists and mags maroons come along and cry Socialism!"

Europeans fund much of their budget through a VAT. That's a fairer tax than anything else.

#12 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-12-14 04:47 AM | Reply

So why are you so sure Americans won't go for it?

If it's so fair and all?

Why are Europeans more open to this?

What makes Americans not willing to do it?

It's Unfamiliar in the US, Like Metric?

?

#13 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-14 09:22 AM | Reply

It's like Republicans have only read "How To Win Friends and Influence People" so they can identify and do the opposite.

#14 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-12-14 11:33 AM | Reply

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