Trump in talks to end insurance subsidies for 7million people

[yoddle]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/donald-trump-end-payments-obamacare-subsidies-238616

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Perknose
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[Jhhnn]

Trump expands on the Repub tradition of taking the govt & the American people hostage to the whims of the financial elite.

 

[Jaskalas]

"You're going to cover people but no one is going to pay for it"​

Is that official US policy on healthcare now?

 

[JSt0rm]

That will fuck up the insurance companies. Hope everyone gets insurance via work and don't get sick till this get fixed.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Gee whiz, I thought the rhetoric was health care for all, lots of competition, lower prices.

 

[Meghan54]

Gee whiz, I thought the rhetoric was health care for all, lots of competition, lower prices.

Well, once the poors and elderly die off, health care will end up costing less.........

 

[ch33zw1z]

Well, once the poors and elderly die off, health care will end up costing less.........

Of course, my bad, I just need to beef up my callous.

 

[senseamp]

Blow up private insurance market while your own party is in power to take the blame? Brilliant!

 

[Jhhnn]

Blow up private insurance market while your own party is in power to take the blame? Brilliant!

It's all Obama's fault! Doomed to fail! Nothing could have saved it! (From Republicans, that is.)

 

[sactoking]

The stupid thing is that they'll still pay the money to the insurers when they lose lawsuits in the Court of Claims. All this does is drive up premiums for no reason.

 

[sandorski]

....and this will be why Obamacare fails.

 

[Jhhnn]

....and this will be why Obamacare fails.

The reason that Repubs want the ACA to fail is that their billionaire backers don't want to pay the 3.8% surtax on income over $250K. Their incomes are so enormous that buying the Repubs is apparently cheaper & more profitable than paying that paltry %.