Team Biden plots attack on Trump over Obamacare
Team Biden plots attack on Trump over Obamacare
Trump says he’s “looking at alternatives” to the law and Democrats are eager to have that conversation now.
If Biden really wants to sweeten this, he should propose improvements to the ACA, in addition to preserving what Republicans have thus far failed to kill. Start playing offense.
Get rid of the concept of deductibles, bring back that public option, allow year-round sign up, there are a lot of improvements that could be made. Unfortunately Democrats are not the party of solutions, they are a party of maintaining a status quo.
I think our parties are only interested in offending each other, not in doing something that actually helps a majority of Americans.
Yawning @ yet another BoTh SiDeS
One party got Obamacare done and is responsible that 40 million Americans who otherwise wouldn't have health insurance are covered by the Affordable Care Act.
The other side has sabotaged Obamacare in any kind of way possible, has blocked the Obamacare expansion to uninsured people in their own home states, has sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to eliminate Obamacare, has campaigned for 10 years against Obamacare, and came to within one single vote of eliminating Obamacare without any kind of replacement whatsoever.
And here you are, telling us how both parties are the same.
Ahhh!!! One is actively fascist and their front runner for the next presidential election openly says he wants to be a dictator, but yeah, both sides are just interested in offending each other. Uh huh.
Trump will do what he did last time. Claim to have a Healthcare plan. Point to an enormous pile of blank paper saying it's his Healthcare plan or something. And continue to have absolutely no plan and make no progress. Followers will irrationally feel like things are improving even though nothing has changed. Or actually gotten worse if they manage to get control of the house and senate and kill the affordable care act. Expect gains Biden made in his administration, like for the first time allowing Medicare to bargain with drug companies for better prices, to also be on the chopping block.
For a candidate that was the first real meme candidate, it's pretty amazing there aren't popular memes about his lying and deflection and haplessness.
It seems the gish gallop works in the dank.
Trump promised a health care plan by August 2020. It obviously never came. There is no Trump health care plan other than repealing a Healthcare policy 60% of Americans have favorable views of. A great target for the Biden campaign.
Yeah, let's throw millions of Americans back into the clutches of the scarcely regulated health insurance industry like it used to be. That's a winning message. Please proceed, Mr. Trump.
It is a winning message for the "Fuck you, I got mine" crowd.
It’s also a winning message for the I-vote-my-values-not-my-best-interest crowd.
Personally I am still on team repeal and replace, repeal the Affordable Care Act and just go with a single-payer healthcare program like you would find in any Civilized Nation
"Affordable" Care Act.
Ha.
I need surgery. The list price is $40,000. The cash-up-front price through a hospital was $9500. The price for the same surgery through an ambulatory surgical clinic is $4700. I am offered insurance through my workplace. My monthly premiums would be $200, I would have an annual deductible of about $5000 before 20% coinsurance, and then an out of pocket maximum of $9500. My price through workplace insurance would be $11,900 (monthly premiums + out of pocket max). I can get a platinum plan on the Healthcare.gov that would cost me $750/mo in premiums--I don't qualify for any subsidies because I can get shitty insurance through my workplace--that has an annual deductible of $750, and an out of pocket maximum of $1500. So the same surgery would be $10,500 for a full-price plan on the marketplace.
Short of a catastrophic accident or illness, insurance just isn't affordable, and doesn't make sense. Unless Biden can fix the system so that you can get subsidies on the marketplace even if you are eligible for insurance through your employer, it's just not going to work. I would definitely pay $250-300/mo for a platinum plan, but I can't afford $750/mo, and I can't afford to pay both the premiums and the deductible for what I can get through my workplace.
Fail until you claim victory?
Biden ran on a public option and never delivered. Trump promised that he had a good healthcare plan, and it was all bullshit. Biden is now funding war crimes and a genocide in Palestine. Why do we have to choose between these two? Fuck this.
Edit: bullying people into voting for Democrats(or any asshole for that matter) will never work. Downvotes and name calling will only make shit worse. Grow up and bring up sound arguments, instead of being a total toolbag and a blind fucking sheep who just wants to "vote blue no matter who".
Why do we have to choose between these two?
Because unfortunately our options at this point in time in the US are fascism and not fascism.
A lot of democratic and left-leaning Americans didn’t vote for Biden or Hillary, but rather they voted against Trump.
Trump will release his plan in 2 weeks.
Along with his taxes 😂
As disappointed as I am with the Biden administration, I must have missed where Biden's campaign was ambitious enough to run on revisiting the public option. Do you have a source for that?
A quick search on YouTube yielded a ton of videos. This is one just one of them https://youtu.be/WzBnMtwysqw?si=3nUjljP6ZRtZYdW-
He did a lot with the ACA, but everyone ignored it.
Also new this year, families who may not have previously been eligible for tax credits may now be eligible for financial assistance – for the first time ever – thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration. Earlier this month, the Administration finalized a rule which will help about 1 million Americans who are offered employer insurance either gain coverage or see their coverage become more affordable through the Marketplace. To take advantage of the new policy, families who have found employer insurance unaffordable in the past should look at new opportunities for savings on HealthCare.gov.
To help connect people to coverage, the Biden-Harris Administration also made the single largest investment ever in the Navigators program. The $98.9 million this year builds on the Administration’s quadrupling of Navigators last year, which helped contribute to the record- breaking 14.5 million people who signed up for 2022 health care coverage through the Marketplaces, including nearly 6 million people who newly gained coverage. This continuation of historic levels of funding will help Navigators continue their work informing consumers about the enhanced tax credits and coverage available on HealthCare.gov.
There's also this link above.
Making insurance make more sense.
With standardized maximum out-of-pocket limitations, deductibles, and cost-sharing features, consumers will be able to more directly compare other important plan attributes, such as premiums, provider networks, prescription drug coverage, and quality ratings when choosing a plan.
Today, President Biden announced a series of new actions under a core pillar of his “Bidenomics” agenda to lower health care costs and crack down on surprise junk fees for American families and consumers. Since the beginning of his Administration, President Biden has passed historic legislation to lower health care costs for tens of millions of Americans, took on Big Pharma to finally allow Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, and took action to eliminate hidden fees in every sector of the economy. Today, the Administration is taking additional steps to continue to deliver on those promises.
But Biden hasn't single handedly created fully socialized healthcare for every person so nothing else matters. Perfection or fail.