Nice health
insurance policy you got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.
That sounds like the sort of protection racket the White House is running.
"We'd offer them $1 of cost-sharing reductions for $1 of wall payments.
Right now that's the offer we've given our Democratic colleagues." That's
Mick Mulvaney from OMB. This is a tweet from President Trump. "Obamacare
is in serious trouble. The Dems need big money to keep it going - otherwise it
dies far sooner than anyone would have thought."
Does that sound
like low-income folks who depend on subsidies for their health insurance are
represented by Democrats and not Republicans? "The Dems need big money to
keep it going." The Republicans preference is to see it fail, that seems
clear. Savings from the repeal of ACA are still needed to give tax reform any
chance of succeeding. The wealthy still need their tax cuts. Both are more
important than health insurance for the poor.
This week Kaiser
Family Foundation came out with an analysis of the effects of ending the CSR
subsidies that are being held hostage. "The increased cost to the federal
government of higher premium tax credits would actually be 23% more than the
savings from eliminating cost-sharing reduction payments." It's worth losing
money to eliminate every last vestige of President Obama and to build a big, beautiful
wall. Maybe Mexico will pay for our health insurance, too.
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