Democrats are winning the health care shutdown war

[marmar]

Democrats are winning the health care shutdown war
Allowing Obamacare premiums to soar appears to be one step too far

By Heather Digby Parton
Columnist
Published October 9, 2025 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) From the moment Donald Trump hit the campaign trail in 2015, he promised the American people he would replace Obamacare with a plan that would offer “such great health care, at a tiny fraction of the cost — and it’s going to be so easy.“ He said, “nobody knows health care better than Donald Trump.“ Ten years of similar promises have shown that replacing the Affordable Care Act wasn’t so easy after all — and that the only health care plan the GOP ever truly wanted was one called “you’re on your own.”

Obamacare is, overall, a successful and popular program — the Republicans’ worst nightmare. So naturally, drunk with power as they are, they’ve decided to take another stab at ruining it, which is why they decided to let the subsidies that have been in place for the last five years lapse. Experts say this will cause premiums to skyrocket and force many to go without health care. Restoring these subsidies is Democrats’ main demand in the government shutdown battle.

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If the party has any plans beyond raising premiums for Obamacare and slashing Medicaid to the bone, closing tons of rural hospitals, instituting irrational work requirements and denying care to millions of people, the place to look for some of their big ideas is Project 2025. Despite the fact that Trump denied he had anything to do with it, the Heritage Foundation manifesto has turned out to be the blueprint for his administration’s domestic policies. According to the Project 2025 Tracker, which bills itself as “a comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation” of the plan, the project is 48% complete.

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Democrats have historically been in the driver’s seat when it comes to health care. Perennial polling shows them to be more trusted than Republicans on the issue, and for good reason. Democrats are responsible for the very existence of Medicare and Medicaid, and they have safeguarded the programs for decades of Republican attempts to take away people’s health insurance. According to polling on which party bears responsibility for the shutdown, most people see that the inane talking point that Democrats were demanding free health insurance for undocumented immigrants is an obvious lie, so much so that Republicans are dropping it. Word about Medicaid and the ACA premiums is starting to filter into the mainstream. For the first time in recent memory, headlines are proclaiming that “Republicans are in disarray” rather than Democrats. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/09/democrats-are-winning-the-health-care-shutdown-war/

[samnsara]

1. whats Cruella whining about now?

[Walleye]

2. Republicans, the only way to get their attention is to hit them where they live personally

[3Hotdogs]

3. From your keyboard,

to God's eyeballs.

[WestMichRad]

4. Headline is inaccurate

I know you used the Salon article’s title, so am not criticizing you. Title applies to the polling numbers.

But really, I think NO ONE is winning with this shutdown… at least, no one among 95%+ of the population.