Ryan Paige

So we are definitely not getting the subsidies, mostly because the leverage Democrats had is g-o-n-e completely and Republicans can put all sorts of conditions on their support.

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Here's a nice, non-opposition article about our most recent one:

wylienews.com/2025/07/03/c...

I remember first encountering that kind of animus toward the idea of such a project in my hometown of Amarillo, Texas when I was 18 or 19. I was shocked at the time.

I don't know why I'm still shocked when it happens in my current town today.

In practice, that's effectively not any different than how the exchange works now. It's just a difference of who the government writes the check to.

It only makes a difference if you start allowing junk policies again that don't cover all sorts of things.

I mean, this is kind of the best time to deal with it because:

1. Changing leadership is better the sooner it happens.
2. The deadline to file for a place on the ballot is coming up soon in a lot of states.

Yeah I’m sure people were still wondering the Republican position when they kept vowing to “repeal every word” of Obamacare.

And it looks like they’re going to take this opportunity to try again to kill the whole thing.

While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.

I mean, he's a fucking doctor. Sure the concept of insurance and shared risk is not beyond him.

So he's saying the system should be that we bypass insurance companies altogether and the government just sends the medical care providers a check when we avail ourselves of their services?

We could fund it through a tax and call it something like Medicare for All.

Just goes to show how much better off the American people will be with significantly fewer options in the media marketplace and several fewer jobs. We should just merge everyone into one big corporation that will eventually fire all its employees for cost savings and stop producing anything.

Or candidates fill the gap by taking more PAC money and become even more beholden to corporations and special interests.

Long-term, potentially millions of rank-and-file Democrats will have less money to donate to political campaigns in 2026 because our health insurance is so much more expensive, so the ability for Democratic candidates to remind people of bad things GOPers do will be diminished.

Oh but it will be so embarrassing for him to not do it and then the Democrats will use it in ads against him because having political talking points for re-election and gotcha votes are more important than actually helping the American people.

The lawsuit will get stayed and the Supreme Court will sit on it for a year and then declare it moot like with the emoluments thing.

"Hey honey, I'm not going to fight for a raise this year. I figure if I give in now, it'll make the company look bad and they'll give me employee of the month which, as you know, comes with a $20 gift card and a snazzy plaque."

When I'm writing that check for insurance every month that's three times higher than it was last year, I'll just be grateful that my significant financial sacrifice will make Democrats look good in TV ads (that I won't be able to donate to because I'm paying 3x for insurance).

Even when Democrats had 60 Senators, they couldn't get a public option in the ACA because Republicans were against it. The thing that likely would have had the most impact on health care costs.

And when the 'bigger fight' comes, there will be fewer of us. And there still won't be a mechanism to get back the things we're so willing to give away today?

So what kind of victory will it even be. We sacrifice people who need insurance. We sacrifice transgender people. We sacrifice whoever else we're going to sacrifice before November to save for the 'bigger fight'

(Plus, even if Dems win in November, there aren't going to be 60 of you. How quickly will you capitulate to GOPers to get to 60 votes?)

Not to mention the president will still be the same guy for another couple of years after November.

Can you just give us a list of Democratic Party constituencies that we're willing to throw overboard and quit fighting for so we can plan ahead for those later betrayals?

Last year, it was all about how Democrats should just toss away transgender people because there are bigger fights. And now it's tossing away people who rely on ACA subsidies to have insurance because there are bigger fights. Before long, we'll all have been thrown overboard.

Why would anyone trust Congressional Democrats to take on any bigger fights if they capitulate on one of these "lesser" fights? How many people get thrown overboard in exchange for a symbolic vote to use in re-election campaigns.

Political talking points don't take anything off my insurance bill.

And in return, we get to do this all again at the end of January, though I expect the capitulation will come much quicker then (for one, no reason to try for extended ACA subsidies by then).

I mean, I totally understand that there are only so many things Democrats can do right now given their minority status in both houses of Congress; however, the wish was that they would do everything they can to stand up for us or whatever.

This deal is trading us for stuff to use in election ads.

So instead of fighting for the American people, Kaine and his ilk have traded us for what he thinks is going to be a good political talking point.

This deal is the difference between representing your constituents or representing your re-election chances.

The shutdown was making it abundantly clear who was for massively increasing the cost of health care and who wasn't.

All this is done is removed any pressure to not increase the cost of health care by trading the leverage for a vote that even Tim Kaine knows won't pass.

Mine is just over triple what it was for 2025.

They've been addressing it... by continually saying no.