The White House has shown little urgency in extending the subsidies until shutdown ends.

Republicans are barreling toward the upcoming Obamacare enrollment period without a unified plan to address the sticker shock that millions of Americans are likely to experience due to the expiration of key federal subsidies.

The lack of direction comes from the top, with Trump not providing clear guidance to his party on how he wants to deal with the expiring subsidies that could result in dramatic out-of-pocket price hikes for enrollees.

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    The government cannot afford to keep subsidizing people’s lifestyles. If you want to be healthy then you need to pay for it. Because we have to build a giant gold ball room baby! It’s going to be gorgeous and we are not invited.

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    This is the biggest welfare scandal in the US right now. Congress is refusing to go to work, but still getting fully paid.

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    Do they have a game plan for what they’re going to do after they implode the entirety of the countries government economy or are they just stupid? Like this could easily destroy the entire Health Care industry, not just the insurance companies by creating a death spiral. Like yeah sure they’re full of crazy people and this stuff used to be just empty rhetoric for they had the power to realize it but this doesn’t seem like the smartest plan

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      Their game plan is to put all their money in crypto, foreign currency, and gold, which they are betting will hold its value after the US economy implodes. Then the entire US will be up for sale at “cheap” prices, relative to their currencies, while everyone with dollars gets screwed.

      Yes, they might utterly destroy the finances of most of us in the pprocess, but they don’t care! They just want to own it all.

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      Project 2025 is the game plan but keep in mind not everything is planned.

      Republicans have full control and the Great American Fire Sale is ongoing. They just got started.

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      Like this could easily destroy the entire Health Care industry, not just the insurance companies by creating a death spiral

      It’s not that the industry is dead - it’s just that health insurance companies are insanely parasitic and are about to kill the host. The death-spiral already started and there simply isn’t enough money to rebuild or ‘reform’ a privatized healthcare system where insurance companies sit at all the choke points.

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    Don’t be bothering him with such petty things, don’t you know he has SOOOOOO much on his plate with the peace talks and whitehouse renovations. Why do you bother an old, troubled mind with such terrible things?

    /s for those that need it

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      QANON started as a joke on the Internet. Yes, the sarcasm tag is needed even when it’s obvious to some.

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        the_donald started as a joke on the Internet. (And those who pointed out the joke were extremely quickly banned.)

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      I saw that all trade talks are off with Canada. So that will free up at least 15 seconds per day.

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      I love how many like the ACA but absolutely HATE Obamacare. That moment of realization on their faces never gets old. “Why would they call the ACA Obamacare?”