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Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year. The enhanced tax credits both increased the amount of financial assistance already eligible ACA Marketplace enrollees received as well as made middle-income enrollees with income above 400% of federal poverty guidelines eligible for premium tax credits. Since the introduction of the enhanced premium tax credits, enrollment in the Marketplace has more than doubled from about 11m to over 24m people, the vast majority of whom receive an enhanced premium tax credit. If enhanced tax credits expire, many Marketplace enrollees will continue to qualify for a smaller tax credit, while others will lose eligibility altogether and be hit by a "double whammy" of losing their entire tax credit and being on the hook for rising premiums. For many Americans, their premiums will double.

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The Republican Party has made no secret about their intention to destroy Medicaid, Medicare, and Obamacare (the ACA), as well as privatizing our social security funds. The horrendous effects of the 'BBB" is coming fast and soon for vulnerable Americans, just like the great white shark in Jaws, all just to give fat-a$$ no-good billionaire oligarchs a gigantic and unneeded tax break. Great job on 5 Nov 2024 Republican voters! All of you must be wealthy with private physicians, platinum healthcare plans, and nearby fully-staffed clinics and hospitals to take good care of you and your families when you get sick, injured, or shot.

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A Republican wet dream.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-01 06:17 AM | Reply

The GOP has always hated the ACA which was Obama's signature legislation from his first term because it allowed the lower middle class afford health insurance. They have tried hundreds of times to repeal it, but outright repeal is unpopular so in both of Cankles tax scams they are putting a pillow over its face...first by repealing the mandate penalties and now by removing the subsidies.

Will they offer their own plan? No because that helps the lower middle class.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-01 08:18 AM | Reply

One New Yorker's plan if her monthly health insurance premium doubles? She'll move back to the UK where they have universal healthcare and none of this cr&p that we have to deal with here: gothamist.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-01 09:33 AM | Reply

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And Republicans don't care. The worst offenders are the dirt-poor MAGA supporters who don't have a pot to piss in, but love having a racist in the White House who "took the country back." Never mind these useful idiots handed over America's wealth to the oligarchs, transferred US foreign policy over to the Kremlin and Jerusalem, and empowered a police state manned with armed runamoks on steroids.

These malefactors have hastened America's decline in every facet imaginable and don't even realize it.

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#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-01 05:02 PM | Reply

They DO Realize it.

It's a Conscious policy.

The Oligarchs don't Want or Need the Expense of Subsidies for Poors.

They have Captured the Republicans...and about half of the Democrats in Spirit.

Best Government Bribes can Buy.

Today's Routine Campaign Contributions were Yesterday's Felony Bribes and improper Emoluments.

America is as much an Oligarchy as Russia.

It's Legal Here.

It's also Legal there.

Cash is King.

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-01 09:57 PM | Reply

meanwhile president toddler is posting this crap.

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#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-01 10:04 PM | Reply

#5 They DO Realize it.

Uneducated MAGA voters in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia et al realize they 'handed over America's wealth to the oligarchs, transferred US foreign policy over to the Kremlin and Jerusalem, and empowered a police state manned with armed runamoks on steroids?'

I assess that the GOP and oligarchs know it, but Red State ignoramuses that vote for them are oblivious, like unknowing sheep being led to the abattoir by a Judas Goat.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-02 12:20 AM | Reply

#6: Who on the planet will defend this indefensible AI crap?

Pedophile Dummkopf Trumpf is a child in an old man's body and is drunk with power. And Trumpf's followers love these imbecilic theatrics, all meant to distract and deflect away from his manifest shortcomings, as well as the greatest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top in US history.

Meanwhile, no one is discussing the Epstein files and how many times this sexual pervert may have consorted with underage girls that resemble his daughter Ivanka.

And next year more poor Americans will be hurting as an era of austerity will grip the US.

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-02 12:35 AM | Reply

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