Re: Obamacare So Popular, GOP Embraces It

On 9/8/25 5:13 PM, pothead wrote:
> Fred Barchetta wrote:
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>> On 9/8/25 4:30 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>> Fred Barchetta wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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>>>> On 9/8/25 11:05 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>> Fred Barchetta wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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>>>>>> On 9/8/25 10:12 AM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
>>>>>>>      |
>>>>>>>      | Republicans detest the idea of spending billions of dollars
>>>>>>>      | to shore up the Affordable Care Act. They are also
>>>>>>>      | realizing that the alternative could be a political
>>>>>>>      | disaster.
>>>>>>>      |
>>>>>>>      | With health insurance premiums projected to skyrocket at
>>>>>>>      | the end of the year thanks to the expiration of tax credits
>>>>>>>      | Democrats enacted during the pandemic, Republicans are
>>>>>>>      | likely to focus on paring back those federal subsidies. But
>>>>>>>      | allowing them to go away entirely at the end of this year
>>>>>>>      | heading into the midterms?
>>>>>>>      |
>>>>>>>      | "I don't think that's a good idea," Sen. John Cornyn,
>>>>>>>      | R-Texas, told Semafor.
>>>>>>>      | ...
>>>>>>> <https://www.semafor.com/article/09/08/2025/republicans-grapple-with
>>>>>>> -internal-divide-over-obamacare-credits>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Affordable care act - so affordable it requires billions to shore
>>>>>> up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope you can handle 20 to 40% increases in your premiums, bwah.
>>>>
>>>> So, the affordable healthcare in the affordable healthcare act isn't
>>>> so affordable. And you suckers all fell for it.
>>>
>>> :-D It's more affordable than non-corporate subsidized insurance,
>>> Flintstone.
>>
>> Oh, there's a ringing endorsement.
>>> "Obamacare" has proven to be useful and popular.
>>
>> Yeah, it's real crowd-pleaser — unless you’re one of the millions
>> stuck with skyrocketing premiums or a doctor who vanished from your plan.
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> Health care is socialist.   Nobody needs it.

Everybody needs it. Just don't demand that I be required to pay for yours.