Republicans don't have a healthcare plan, just a plan to kill Obamacare

[Zorro]

For millions of Americans, Jan. 1 won’t be an occasion to celebrate the coming of the new year. It will be an occasion for dread.

The reason is the impending termination of crucial premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans. Without a last-minute agreement between congressional Democrats and Republicans, the subsidy structure that has been in place since 2021 will revert to the original arrangement written into the act in 2010.

Millions of Americans dependent on the ACA will face potentially ruinous increases in coverage costs. Many will have to drop their coverage. That process will leave those with the most urgent and costly treatments in the ACA, and those who think they can get away with dropping insurance — or simply can’t afford it — on the outs. The result will be a sicker coverage cohort, which will raise prices for everybody.

The current stalemate is the offspring of the GOP’s 15-year campaign to undermine — really, to kill — Obamacare.

Republicans have dressed up their attack on the ACA with reams of empty rhetoric. They habitually call the ACA a “disaster,” without offering a cogent explanation of why.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-17/republicans-dont-have-healthcare-plan-just-a-plan-to-kill-obamacare

[Historic NY]

1. WeDon'tCarePlan its not cheap

[JPK]

2. The problem with our medical system

The insurance companies that take 30% off the top and then decide whether or not you will get some coverage denied. That IS the real issue. They don't want you to see a doctor. They don't want to pay for services. They don't want to pay docs or hospitals. They just want to accumulate wealth.

[Walleye]

3. Tired of hearing people say that the government fucks up everything and gets Into

My healthcare is working fine, I have Medicare, and I get my Social Security check right on time every month. Show me another entity with a record like that.

[Freddie]

4. St. Ronnie poisoned the well

With his distrust and disdain of government. And every time Repugs get in power, they make sure that government doesn’t work to perpetuate the cycle.

[Walleye]

7. And Newt Gingrich was a center in that

[Skittles]

8. repukes like to say the government doesn't work for us

then when they are in power they go around PROVING that statement

[SheltieLover]

5. Funny how limiting ins co profits is NEVER a consideration, isn't it?

[rampartd]

6. they have convinced themselves that if government is removed from health care

the invisible hand of the free market will bring down prices of medical care.

i remain somewhat skeptical.