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I think only the "enhanced" subsidies (from the Covid19 era) will expire. The subsidies that existed before the enhancement will still be there. They won't be generous enough to cover the increased premiums to the degree that enhanced subsidies would.

Damn! That sucks! This is why having a single payer system would be so much better for all, including those now getting insurance through employers. The ACA is something, but it isn't perfect and relies on for-profit motives of insurance companies, not on delivering healthcare.

All is not lost. ACA still exists, the the Covid-era enhanced subsidies will expire. Some states may be stepping up to help their own residents.

Did that actually happen? I thought it was the "enhanced" subsidies that were at stake. We'd be back to the old subsidies (before Covid), but the ACA would still exist. Democratic-led states have begun preparing to bolster subsidies in their own states. bsky.app/profile/char...

Not according to the article. It looks like the blue states are going to do it as well.

It seems like it is his. Has anybody told him it is not?

The author of the article talks about risk adjustment, but does not mention that, indeed, older people (age 55+) pay much higher premiums on the ACA exchange than younger people. It acts how bit of underwriting would act. Yes, there are youngster and oldster premiums.

If that is the case, I agree. Shut down all government functions. I have three adult children who are federal employees who are at work today, one in DC. She has to commute, pay parking, and WORK as there is a supposed deadline for her project. Why go to work when you won't get paid?

Read up. There are NO "Democrat" agencies. All agencies in government exist because votes in Congress created the funding mechanism for them. All agencies serve citizens in some manner.

I am not sure people realize that if the Republicans want to keep the government open, it remains open - period. They have manipulated Senate parliamentary rules just recently to bypass regular order to confirm appointments. They can do the same to give themselves an open government. Simple.

That's not what happened. Read up.

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Maybe you are on a block list of some sort. I know I am.

Maryland joins multistate coalition to buck Trump administration vaccine policies - WTOP News Maryland has joined a growing coalition of states that are setting their own public health guidelines to counter the Trump administration’s more restrictive vaccine policies.

They have... wtop.com/maryland/202...

My neighbor is convinced that is what is going on. He says some of the brass will be fired and the rest will be told that they will turn their focus to conducting war starting with a focus on the "homeland". Some brass will quit. All will be sworn to secrecy before they leave.

I read this in a thread elsewhere.

"How does President Trump know who did this and why? What if it was a hostile foreign government that sent a professional to do this as a way to further divide our country?"

These are good questions.

Will they put troops on campus now? Will they put troops in mid-size towns now? Do we even know the motivation of the shooter? What if the shooter is another John Hinckley-type who just wants notoriety and might even be a Republican? Let's not jump to conclusions quite yet.

I don't think tariffs are applauded by the GOP. They are bad for businesses and consumers and won't change the US economy in any positive way. Still...if eating tariffs makes the rest of their plans unfold, they'll do that. This has been decades in the making.

I don't think they are "falling in line". I think the GOP actually does agree with this and with the rest of Project 2025. They have wanted this since the time of Nixon. They have it now. They control it now.

Shamefully, it will happen. The ballroom is coming. The rose garden is now a patio. The former-Kennedy Center will be molded to his liking. He will make text book providers eliminate science and history chapters that he doesn't understand. There are hints at using the WH lawn for a cage match.

Maybe it had something to do with his Taj Mahal casino's money laundering. Oh...and the Panama hotel bearing his name money laundering for the drug cartels. Oh..and the Deutche Bank possible money laundering claims. No bank wants to keep reporting suspicious bank transactions.

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He is refusing to have his ties cleaned, so they are all dirty now. He doesn't want that dirt hanging on his body. He could buy new ties, but that would involve spending his own money. There are many more possible reasons.

Jeebus! What about sending solar panels and batteries? How did we get these nutzy people in positions of power (rhetorical question)?

Exactly!

They are not dumb. They are evil. We just want to believe that they couldn't possibly be evil.

I don't think the Republicans acknowledge problems in the economy. They're too busy focusing on giving Trump whatever he wants. They "like" how their Project 2025 is going so far. They have wanted the dismantling of federal agencies for as long as I can remember. They like the taXriffs too.

Elaine Chao - supposedly she received somewhere in the area of $5 to $25 million in inheritance when her mother died. Her father has or had a shipping company and was very wealthy. Depending upon investment strategy, that inheritance could have grown substantially. Or...he's might be a crook.

Biden and Obama didn't do that. What happened was that cultural progressives were on-line strongly criticizing language around race, gender, and sexuality. There were so many new words that oldies like me had to look them up. We need to understand that others don't spent their lives on-line.