Trump Urges Senate Republicans To Give Health Care Money 'Directly To The People' As Shutdown Talks Drag On

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22. tRump has always favored letting people buy various kinds of junk insurance, which undoubtedly save people money --

-- until the bills show up. Like the Christian sharing health plans, the short-term plans, many others

The ACA, for all its faults, have requirements like ten essential things and more that must be covered, and other standards.

Before the ACA, it was impossible to compare insurance plans because there was no standard to compare to, and each one was full of fine print and marketing gimmicks (so during those years I just went "bare" ).

When the ACA came along, I felt much more confident in knowing what I was and wasn't getting.

Fortunately, I've been on Medicare for the last few years, so I don't have to keep up with what's going on with the ACA, other than, yes, I read the articles about huge jumps in premiums to be made even bigglier without the extended tax credits.

Oh, how isn't the tax credits a way to give money directly to the people? So why is he and the R's opposed to that?

We went thru all this with tRump and Republicans back in 2017, who came up with a plan (the AHCA (American Health Care Act) and the BCRA (Better Care Reconciliation Act), which were remarkably similar to the ACA except vastly underfunded -- such that premiums were expected to be much much higher (and coverage weaker) for most people, leading the CBO to estimate 22 million people would lose insurance as a result. Yet it came just one vote short of passing.
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