Donald Trump appears poised to announce a two-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, due to expire at the end of December, while setting new limits on who is eligible to receive the tax credits, according to reports.
Without an extension of Covid-19-era Obamacare subsidies, insurance premiums for nearly 22 million American citizens threaten to more than double early next year, a point made repeatedly by Democrats during the recent 43-day government shutdown, who refused to sign a stopgap spending bill that did not address the problem.
There doesn’t seem to be any rules at this point, why don’t they just pass a new bill that’s exactly the same and call it trumpcare, or hell just rename the current law?
Nowhere is it called Obamacare in any official documentation. That’s just what right wing media called it to get their reactionaries to hate it without thought.
Right, it’s so much simpler: just start calling it trumpcare. You can put some ceremony around it, let the taco spout word salad onstage, and have a signing ceremony. If the right people tell Trump it was his idea, he’d probably believe it