Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month. Plenty of rank-and-file Republicans are happy to sit back and ride it out.
Some vulnerable GOP lawmakers up for reelection are scrambling for a last-minute fix to renew the enhanced federal health care subsidies keeping costs down. But even if party leaders and Donald Trump were to rally around a plan in the coming days — and there’s no sign of that happening — many conservatives are likely to revolt.
Democrats have vowed to hammer the GOP in the midterms if they allow the federal aid to expire, but many on the right expect the political fallout to be minimal, or even to backfire on Democrats. For other conservatives, any blowback will be worth it if it means they get to rein in a system the party has fundamentally opposed since its launch more than a decade ago.
They won’t even think it’s caused by the Trump admin anyway, they’ll either blame Joe Biden or some other strawman.
Yeah this is the sad truth of it. And they were too distracted during the shutdown to listen to what the dems were saying. The whole thing was about trying to keep these subsidies. And then when maga see their premiums skyrocket they’ll unironically blame dems and Biden.
These are the dolts that sit there and lap up blatant nonsense about how Taco and thugs are trying to “dig out of” some kind of alleged mess that Biden totally didn’t leave behind.
I will seriously talk to chuds that are doing just fine and claim that they were not doing fine under Biden. When pressed, they will admit that, well, they weren’t really doing all that bad at all, but that maybe it’s a problem that someone like ME (and of course POC, and LGBTQ, etc) was also not actually miserable under Biden.
Not even kidding about that last part. These assholes actually object to liberals such as myself doing well. They are fine; but having others they don’t approve of doing fine is not acceptable. When that video went viral in his first term about how he was not hurting who he was supposed to be hurting, that went viral for a reason. Because so many people had conversations much like I have had with these people - it’s not enough that they are doing okay; others have to be miserable, and the miserable people need to be people unlike them. If you voted blue, you should be living hand to mouth.