Closely related to the below post.......
... Health care insurance lobbyists are a key segment of the overall health sector that will spend more than $439 million in 2025 lobbying Congress, executive branch departments, and regulatory agencies....
A decisive majority of those donations go to Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and his Democratic colleagues, who refuse to end the shutdown unless extremely lucrative “temporary” health care tax subsidies that pour billions of tax dollars into the health care insurers’ coffers are made permanent....
Aside from the insurers, who's getting the Big Benefits from Obamacare/BidenSubsidies?
... “[Obamacare] Marketplace enrollment was relatively stable from 2017 to 2020. Since the enhanced subsidies were implemented in 2021, however, total enrollment has more than doubled from 12 million in 2021 to 24.32 million in 2025. Meanwhile, the number of Marketplace enrollees with incomes above 400 percent of the [Federal Poverty Level] FPL has quadrupled, from roughly 400,000 in 2021 to over 1.5 million in 2025, according to [Kaiser Family Foundation] KFF estimates,” they report....
At 400++%, you are simply not "poor." You're more like middle- to upper-middle class.
Handing the money to insurers rather than to doctors, nurses, and hospitals, (or even to the sick) has not been good for anyone--except the insurers.
Let's design a better system. Put Obama and his Little Lackey Twit Paul Ryan in their place--in Hell.
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Bro, go for it, design a BETTER system. Dems didn’t love the ACA, but it was the best they could get. And it is basically a handout to insurance companies.
Design a system that includes pre-existing conditions and keeps costs under control.Dems would back it in a heartbeat.
Start with allowing cross state insurance and work from there.
Why doesn’t Trump get involved here? Why isn’t he taking on Big Pharma and the insurance companies?
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