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Monday, August 17, 2026

President Trump and congressional Republicans ... have effectively cut subsidies for the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces, making it harder for people who do not receive insurance through work to afford a plan.

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2027 is going to be the healthcare what 2025 was to violent ICE abuses: "OMG, I'm losing my healthcare. I didn't think voting for Republicans would make that happen to me!" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/o ...

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-- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) 12:46 PM · Aug 15, 2026

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What they're trying to do is force working-age Americans to get a job, rather than what the Biden Administration did.... Give Medicare away for free.. You idiots know this.

#1 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-17 09:18 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

It's also an opinion piece... Something else you failed to mention.

"OMG, I'm losing my healthcare. I didn't think voting for Republicans would make that happen to me!!"

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-17 10:12 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Yall are shameless.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-17 10:12 PM | Reply

@#2 ... "OMG, I'm losing my healthcare. I didn't think voting for Republicans would make that happen to me!!" ...

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.

"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 Trump on healthcare:

"Our healthcare plan will lower premiums & deductibles -- and be great healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in May 2017


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-17 10:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@3 ... Yall are shameless. ...

Why?

Because some folk say that Pres Trump has abandoned his promises to Americans on healthcare, an crucial topic for many of them?

Is that the shameless aspect your current alias seems to want to highlight?



#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-17 10:25 PM | Reply

Where is Pres Trump's great healthcare plan for Americans that promises lower costs?

Is it stuck in the blue liner of the Reflecting pool?


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-17 10:27 PM | Reply

Where is Pres Trump's great healthcare plan for Americans

People are saying it will be out in two weeks.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-17 10:33 PM | Reply

Give Medicare away for free..
#1 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDD

Turds is one of the many MAGA morons who believe our taxes should not be spent on helping Americans. But instead should be spent on subsidizing the wealthy and paying for their wars of choice.

Spending taxes to help Americans is somehow seen as "giving Medicare away for free".

Turds doesn't realize the purpose of living in a functioning society is to take care of the members of the society.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-17 10:37 PM | Reply

Where is Pres Trump's great healthcare plan for Americans

Die quietly in the streets seems like an available option.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-17 10:38 PM | Reply

Republican healthcare program: "we're all going to die"

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-17 10:40 PM | Reply

Turdfyck the retard

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-17 10:45 PM | Reply

@#10 ... Republican healthcare program: "we're all going to die" ...

"Well, we're all going to die": Joni Ernst dismisses concern over GOP Medicaid cuts (May 2025)
www.salon.com

... At a tense town hall in Butler County, Iowa, on Friday, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, faced backlash from constituents while defending the "Big Beautiful Bill," a Trump-backed spending proposal that recently passed the House.

In one exchange, an attendee challenged the senator over what they characterized as the devastating impact of proposed GOP cuts to Medicaid and SNAP benefits.

While Ernst claimed that those who would lose Medicaid under the legislation are those who were already not eligible under the "original definition" of the program, an audience member could be heard shouting, "People are going to die."

"Well, we're all going to die," Ernst responded, drawing boos and gasps from the crowd. ...



#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-17 10:45 PM | Reply

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