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This is such a good illustration of how the ACA enhanced subsidies worked.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

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We now have an unprecedented level of income & wealth inequality.

It isn’t acceptable that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, while a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

We must stand together & create an economy that works for all, not just the few.

And all this late game BS on healthcare (delaying or not renewing enhanced ACA premium tax credits) will further send the middle class into a death spiral. Buckle up for dismal consumer spending in Q4.

CT Silver plan: $700 → $3,800.

So you're saying there's a chance for the ACA subsidies? Ok, so I’ve taken a few days to quietly digest the final outcome of the shutdown. I get the feeling of betrayal. I get the feeling that “Dems have caved again.” I get “Why did we do this in the first ...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025.

This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.

Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.

Still not sure we need Medicare for All?

BS. they’ve had all year and open enrollment starts Nov 1.

BS. it’s looking like 3x or more for my silver plan in CT.

A tweet by Robert Reich reads: “The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.”

Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.

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Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

Trump and Republicans made devastating cuts to Medicaid and plan to let vital ACA subsidies expire.

Millions on Medicaid will lose coverage. Millions on ACA plans could see premiums rise by as much as 75%.

Every lie they tell about a shutdown is meant to cover this up.

way more than that! ours will go from $700 /mo to $3,000 /mo.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

I’m 57, self-employed, and having my ACA premiums skyrocket from $700 /mo to over $3,000 /mo is insane. Like it or not, Dems don’t have the cards right now, and must negotiate with whatever is left of moderate republicans. A temporary patch is all we can hope for right now.

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She's bracing and saving to pay $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year Raiding retirement savings. Pondering job changes or even marriage. People who buy their own health insurance are strategizing ahead of major price hikes in 2026. Open enrollment starts Nov. 1.

She was paying $479 a month for her ACA health insurance.

Next year she will be paying *$2,800* a month for the same plan.

And it's all because Republicans decided to end ACA subsidies.

Expect to hear stories like this all across the country very soon.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The top 1% now owns more than $54 trillion in wealth.

That’s 468 times more than the bottom 50%.

One man — Elon Musk — owns more than the bottom half COMBINED.

This is what I mean when I talk about oligarchy.

meanwhile they’re fucking over the 55-year-old neighbor by taking away their ACA subsidies

I’m one of the 17 million.

The Big, Beautiful Bill throws 16 million off health care & decimates our already broken system. I have an amendment to do the opposite.

We EXPAND Medicare to cover dental, hearing & vision & pay for it by cutting prescription drug prices in half. Will any Republican support it?

This 940-page reconciliation bill has a list of horrific provisions. One of the worst is a $211 billion tax break to the top 0.2% who inherit $30 million.

In this bill 16 million lose health care & hungry kids lose nutrition. Meanwhile, billionaires get much richer. Disgusting.

We must not throw 16 million low-income and working class Americans off of the health care they have in order to give massive tax breaks to billionaires.

That is obscene.

Good morning.

If the Republican budget bill passes:

- 40% of the country will lose money
- 15 million people will lose their health care
- the richest families will get a $270,000 tax cut
- the debt will go up 2.4 TRILLION dollars

Who is asking for that??

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Non-binary people exist.

Nothing anyone says will stop that from being true.

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