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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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I thought the Democrats caved in on the government shutdown to prevent this very disaster from happening.

Who were those eight Democratic caucus members who capitulated to the Republicans?

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-11 01:41 PM | Reply

Everyone knew this was going to happen but 8 moronic Democrats still sold out the entire country for this "promised" vote.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-12-11 01:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Are you in favor of Trump subverting the midterms?

I ask this because you seem to support any action that keeps the GOP from being honestly competitive.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-11 02:03 PM | Reply

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-11 02:21 PM | Reply

Republicans NEVER negotiate in good faith.

How many times has this been seen before?

The Eight Democratic Senators,one of which was my former Senator for many years before I moved, were just Cowards.

As soon as the pressure started to build they collapsed and surrendered completely.

???

It made no sense whatsoever at the time.

The Republicans were losing the battle for public opinion.

The vote won't happen.

They prostrated themselves and betrayed the country for NOTHING.

Tim Kaine is Retiring, he's the biggest coward of all.

My former Senator.

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-11 02:21 PM | Reply

No s^*%.

This was the predictable outcome of Corpse Schumer's cave in.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-11 02:22 PM | Reply

Everyone knew this was going to happen but 8 moronic Democrats still sold out the entire country for this "promised" vote.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-12-11 01:56 PM | Reply | Flag: Spot On

One of the caucus members was geriatric Senator Angus King (I-VT), who sounded terrible on TV defending his vote.

The "I Got Mine" Congressional dinosaurs continue aiding and abetting the "social murder" of us, their fellow citizens.

We're all pleased these dinosaurs enjoy platinum healthcare in Congress while making $174,000 per annum, and will secure for themselves a handsome pension after only five or six years of toiling on Capitol Hill.

KICK ALL OF THESE GERIATRIC DEFENDERS OF THE STATUS QUO OUT OF CONGRESS FORTHWITH!



#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-11 02:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!
#4 | Posted by snoofy

Actually Democrats built the subsidies, knowing full well they would expire. why not make it never expire?

You don't ask that question do you?
You've been manipulated but just can't come to terms with it.

Blaming the Republicans is funny because they are literally doing nothing.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-11 02:43 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

So, what should have been the solution? Keep the government shut down forever?

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-11 02:43 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

So, what should have been the solution? Keep the government shut down forever?
#9 | Posted by BellRinger

Solution implies a problem.

Tell us what the problem is, and you'll have no "problem" identifying the solution.

So, what's the problem?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-11 02:46 PM | Reply

So, what's the problem?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-11 02:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

Obama along with the Democrats came up with a schitty healthcare bill and now they're mad at Republicans for not doing something about it?

We would have been better off doing nothing, instead of passing ACA.

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-11 03:17 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Obama along with the Democrats came up with a schitty healthcare bill and now they're mad at Republicans for not doing something about it?
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds

So you're saying
you aren't expecting Republicans
to actually fix anything that's broken.

Hey, neither am I, kid.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-11 03:21 PM | Reply

So you're saying
you aren't expecting Republicans
to actually fix anything that's broken.

Hey, neither am I, kid.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-11 03:21 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm not sure if they will or not. But expecting the other party to do something about your party's mistakes is retarded.

If Republicans do fix the issue, can they count on your vote in the future?

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-11 03:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

We would have been better off doing nothing, instead of passing ACA.

#11 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

And nothing is what we will shortly have.

Bring on the midterms.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-11 03:35 PM | Reply

"But expecting the other party to do something about your party's mistakes is retarded."

I really don't get it.

What's the point of voting for Republicans, if they're not going to fix the mistakes made by Democrats?

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-11 03:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If Republicans do fix the issue, can they count on your vote in the future?

#13 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Is this one of the bizarre hypotheticals I am so often accused of?

The GOP has cut off its own nuts. It will no more "fix" healthcare than it will prevent Trump from having a war with Venezuela.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-11 03:37 PM | Reply

If Republicans do fix the issue, can they count on your vote in the future?
#13 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You can't even say what the issue is...

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-11 03:45 PM | Reply

Ten years go, vapid Republican Marco Rubio as US Senator from Florida undermined and ------------ the ACA (Obamacare) to make the program fail and make Democrats look bad. Source: Marco Rubio Did This

Republicans and the oligarchs do not want Americans to have universal, or even affordable healthcare, because in our sinister for-profit system, every sick, gunshot-wounded, food-poisoned, unvaccinated, or accident-befallen American makes money for the corporations.

Marco Rubella is an unimaginative good-for-nothing evil Empty Suit who "fell up" his entire political career and Republicans continue perpetrating "Social Murder" on their fellow citizens and permanent residents who are much less fortunate than them.

EOM.


#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-11 03:48 PM | Reply

I would absolutely consider voting Republican if they credibly demonstrated a plan for universal health insurance paid for by the government.

Moreso if the Democrats campaigned on behalf of UnitedHealth and Aetna to keep it in private hands.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-11 03:50 PM | Reply

Republican Health care plan : "Just die already"

#20 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-11 04:00 PM | Reply

Medicaid for All....

#21 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-11 04:22 PM | Reply

Republican Health care plan : "Just die already"

Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-11 04:00 PM | Reply

Roger Marshall wants to convert ACA into Health Savings Accounts. It's like they don't know that many of us can't afford that. Burns me up. It does.

#22 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-11 04:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Republican Health care plan : "Just die already"

#20 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-11 04:00 PM | Reply: Yup

And that insidious portion of the Republican non-health care plan is to make money for the funeral industry, the repo sector, banks, and vulture capitalists acquiring people's property.

"There's a lot of money in death": theshoestring.org

One AI Snaphot:

"Three million probate cases pass through US courts each year. Florida alone had over 122,000 probate filings in 2017, and other large states report similar or higher volumes."

Worse, credit reports may begin to start listing medical bankruptcy, as if a poor patient meant to be delinquent because they couldn't afford their outrageous medical bills.

Hundreds of thousands of people in America declare medical bankruptcy every year, a problem that the people of Germany, Japan, the UK, Israel, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, or France do not suffer from.

#23 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-11 04:32 PM | Reply

Just die already

And don't forget to buy a casket from Sweatshop Barbie.

www.snopes.com

#24 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-11 04:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" Actually Democrats built the subsidies, knowing full well they would expire."

Which means Republicans built the "trillions in tax giveaways" knowing full well they would expire.

But Republicans had no problem extending what they wanted, did they?

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-11 04:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Just die already
And don't forget to buy a casket from Sweatshop Barbie.
www.snopes.com

#24 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-11 04:36 PM | Reply | Flag: Who comprises the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF)?


#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-11 04:59 PM | Reply

I am going to ask republicans

Do you consider the US healthcare system a problem?

If so, what plan do you have to address that problem?

Broad strokes are fine.

#27 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-11 05:13 PM | Reply

The dems tried at least to provide every American with health INSURANCE, so that they could have a chance at affording care.

Their plan, while far from perfect, was (and is) a sincere attempt to address a problem for the American people.

I will point out that the plan was passed without republican input (not because dems refused republican input republicans simply refused to provide any help)

As a result the ACA was a compromise plan, that again, while not perfect at least did something.

What have republicans done?

I am honestly curious.

#28 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-11 05:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

#29 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-11 05:40 PM | Reply

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

#29 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

And no money to pay your child's cancer treatments.

#30 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-11 05:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The dems tried at least to provide every American with health INSURANCE, so that they could have a chance at affording care.
Their plan, while far from perfect, was (and is) a sincere attempt to address a problem for the American people.
I will point out that the plan was passed without republican input (not because dems refused republican input republicans simply refused to provide any help)
As a result the ACA was a compromise plan, that again, while not perfect at least did something.
What have republicans done?
I am honestly curious.

Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-11 05:16 PM | Reply

I wished that they did. They gave us instead a plan created by Republicans. Hell Obama guaranteed the healthcare industry that no public option would be in the final product. We need universal single payer stat. That's all there is to it.

#31 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-11 06:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
#29 | Posted by BellRinger

Is that why Republicans only have bad intentions?

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-12 08:13 AM | Reply

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.

And most of the democrats here are unwilling to admit that just as many of their representatives are in bed with the lobbyist as there are republicans. This is why the democrats were willing to kick the can down the road and pay the subsidies that eventually feed the insurance companies.

As I said earlier, we'd be better off had we never passed ACA. What we really needed to do was pass into law language that prohibits the pre-existing clauses should someone HAVE to change providers due to circumstances they couldn't control. But here we are, and anyone who thinks the insurance companies weren't in the backroom discussions about ACA are blind.

#33 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-12 11:46 AM | Reply

@#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
...


Where is the plan?


#34 | 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.

#35 | 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.

#36 | 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.

#37 | 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.

#38 | 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.

#39 | 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.

#40 | 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.

#41 | 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???

#42 | 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???

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

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