Obamacare Subsidies Expire This Month: Republicans Shrug

Thursday, December 04, 2025

Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month.

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NEW: Obamacare subsidies expire in weeks. Meanwhile, Congress is bickering over timelines and election-year optics. @cheetah.bsky.social explains in Press Pass why the likeliest outcome is the worst one: nothing gets done. lnk.thebulwark.com/48wIxHW?utm_ ...

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The anxiety the GOP has about this has shocked them into a self-protective stupor.

The anxiety they will experience when their constituents are forced in poverty by medical bills will hopefully just push all of them fully over the ledge.

Maybe they are hoping that the Orange God will save them? Let's see if he's awake today...

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-03 10:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"But even if party leaders and President Donald Trump were to rally around a plan in the coming days -- and there's no sign of that happening -- many conservatives are likely to revolt."

Dementia Don said he will "look at it" in January, too late to do anything about it.

The Guardians of Pedophiles were never serious about doing anything about it at all and Fetterman and the rest of the sellouts fell for it.

via GIPHY

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-03 10:36 AM | Reply

-Fetterman and the rest of the sellouts fell for it

I suppose there are different ways to look at it but one version is that Trump won the showdown, the sellouts caved and ultimately Trump extended full funding for SNAP benefits anyway.

Perhaps the same thing happens with healthcare subsidies?

#3 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-03 10:47 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Its all about Trump Winning?

Is that your take on this, Eberly?

Maybe so.

It just shows what a little pisspot that fool is if true.

Playing Ego games with people's lives.

Ist also shows that the Republicans have no values but enrich the already Rich more.

But most people knew that long ago.

#4 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-03 10:58 AM | Reply

-Its all about Trump Winning?

It is to Trump. He gets them to cave and then he winds up doing it anyway.....after they cave.

#5 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-03 11:01 AM | Reply

Denial of healthcare services the is the only point that matters. Where will these "healthcare" companies get the money to pay millions in executive salaries and yearend bonuses if they have to payout on claims?

The dead cost nothing.

#6 | Posted by Hickory at 2025-12-04 08:00 AM | Reply

Oh, they will care come the midterms...so I really do think when push comes to shove, they will do the least possible, but still something in the way of subsidies.
My guess, if Luigi ever does come to a trial, the jury won't have a single person on it who was or is on Obamacare.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-04 08:37 AM | Reply

They were never going to do anything about the subsidies.

Health care is only a privilege for the wealthy. The rest of society can die drowning in medical debt.

Tax cuts for billionaires are more important.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 08:46 AM | Reply

Maybe we can have a healthcare where we don't subsidize but replace it with state run. Is SS broken? Out military broken? I might be aligning with the R's in that you don't want to pay insurance money to keep insurance low. Sounds like blackmail.

#9 | Posted by Brennnn at 2025-12-04 09:51 AM | Reply

"Health care is only a privilege for the wealthy. The rest of society can die drowning in medical debt."

That's certainly not what the health care industry wants.

Hospitals
Clinics
Doctors
Nurses
Insurance industry
Pharma
Medical supply

They all benefit from healthcare being utilized by more than just the wealthy. All those businesses would be royally screwed if it was a reality that "health care is only a privilege for the wealthy"

Not sure you're thinking that through. You're just obsessed on what an asshole Trump is....but the world's larger than that.

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-04 10:24 AM | Reply

They were never going to do anything about the subsidies.
Health care is only a privilege for the wealthy. The rest of society can die drowning in medical debt.
Tax cuts for billionaires are more important.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 08:46 AM | Reply | Flag:
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That's not what Obama and the Dems told us when they created this POS and lied about that it would save everyone $2500/ year and you could keep your Dr. Then guess what? It was so bad the government needed to come in and subsidize it. At least Pelosi was honest about it, she had no idea how it would work before she pitched it to the American people.

#11 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-04 11:17 AM | Reply

#11 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Where's the Republican health care plan?

Same place as the Epstein Files?

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 11:29 AM | Reply

That's not what Obama and the Dems told us..

Yup. Because that's what republicans told you.

It was so bad the government needed to come in and subsidize it.

Thanks to republicans. This is what republicans have been working so hard towards. To see OBAMAcare struggle and hopefully fail.

How many times have republicans attempted to destroy or undermine it ... 70 times? Not once did they vote to fix any problems.

You don't get to criticize OBAMAcare after doing nothing to make it work have no alternative and then attempting to destroy it ~70 times. Because that's what Dear Leader wanted.

No one knew how to make it work until they tried. Republicans not only did not try. They actively tried to undermine or destroy it with NO ALTERNATIVE.

Seriously friend. GFY with your sick maga lies.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 11:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Expiration:
Unless Congress acts, the enhanced subsidies are set to expire, and subsidies will revert to the less generous levels that were in place from 2014 to 2020 beginning in 2026.

set to expire -by biden admin
dems setting a trap for subsequent admin

where was chicken little from 2014-2020? did the sky fall then?

#14 | Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-04 12:17 PM | Reply

It was so bad the government needed to come in and subsidize it.
Thanks to republicans. This is what republicans have been working so hard towards. To see OBAMAcare struggle and hopefully fail.
#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-04 11:30 AM | Reply | Flag:

Republicans are at fault for ObamaCare being a dismal failure? It failed on it's own, republicans didn't vote for it and didn't make any changes that made it worse, Dems own it.
So based on your logic if a Trump policy fails it is the Democrats fault because they have worked so hard to try and make him fail.

#15 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-04 12:55 PM | Reply

" set to expire -by biden admin"

Means nothing.

The trillions in tax giveaways were set to expire as well. Republicans had no problem renewing them.

This is the tax code Republicans WANTED.

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-04 12:55 PM | Reply

#15 | Posted by fishpaw

Republicans have been working hard at undermining the ACA since its inception. Here is a google search of articles about that very thing. I bet you won't read them though.

how the republicans undermined the aca

#17 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-12-04 01:05 PM | Reply