Those funds aren’t “going to insurance companies.”
They’re subsidies that directly lower people’s premiums and deductibles
Cut them and you blow up the entire marketplace, jack up prices, and throw millions off their coverage overnight
This is a deliberate plan to kill the ACA
They’re subsidies that directly lower people’s premiums and deductibles
Cut them and you blow up the entire marketplace, jack up prices, and throw millions off their coverage overnight
This is a deliberate plan to kill the ACA
https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/1987188273601552875
Let’s walk through all the reasons this is a terrible idea.
1. As I stated above, this is not “giving money to the people.” It’s DISMANTLING THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE that makes health insurance even *remotely* affordable.
1. As I stated above, this is not “giving money to the people.” It’s DISMANTLING THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE that makes health insurance even *remotely* affordable.
2. Those “hundreds of billions” aren’t handouts to insurance companies. They’re premium subsidies and cost-sharing reductions that go directly to lowering people’s bills.
If you pull that funding out of the system:
• Premiums skyrocket
• Deductibles explode
• 40+ million people lose coverage
• Insurers pull out of entire states
This already happened once when Trump himself cut CSR payments in 2017. Premiums jumped 20–40% in a single year.
• Premiums skyrocket
• Deductibles explode
• 40+ million people lose coverage
• Insurers pull out of entire states
This already happened once when Trump himself cut CSR payments in 2017. Premiums jumped 20–40% in a single year.
3. You can’t “send it to the people” without collapsing the marketplaces.
The Affordable Care Act’s subsidies are the only reason plans stay solvent.
You remove the subsidies, you destroy the marketplace.
The Affordable Care Act’s subsidies are the only reason plans stay solvent.
You remove the subsidies, you destroy the marketplace.
You destroy the marketplace, and premiums go nuclear.
And you get Trump/the @GOP’s real goal: killing Obamacare without ever voting to repeal it.
And you get Trump/the @GOP’s real goal: killing Obamacare without ever voting to repeal it.
@GOP 4. Trump is pretending he’s fighting insurance companies while literally empowering them.
If subsidies vanish, insurers don’t lower prices, they RAISE THEM.
And millions are forced into junk plans, catastrophic-only plans, or no coverage at all.
If subsidies vanish, insurers don’t lower prices, they RAISE THEM.
And millions are forced into junk plans, catastrophic-only plans, or no coverage at all.
@GOP 5. This is exactly how Republicans engineered pre-ACA chaos.
Before the ACA:
• Insurers denied coverage for preexisting conditions
• Plans dropped people mid-treatment
• Lifetime caps cut off chemo, cancer care, NICU stays, and ER visits
Before the ACA:
• Insurers denied coverage for preexisting conditions
• Plans dropped people mid-treatment
• Lifetime caps cut off chemo, cancer care, NICU stays, and ER visits
@GOP The result?
Tens of millions of Americans went uninsured because coverage was unaffordable
Defunding ACA subsidies takes us right back there.
Tens of millions of Americans went uninsured because coverage was unaffordable
Defunding ACA subsidies takes us right back there.
@GOP 6. Trump is doing the con he always does:
Pretend he’s Robin Hood “giving back to the people”
→ while actually gutting the only law keeping healthcare affordable
and
→ giving insurance companies and billionaires everything they want
Pretend he’s Robin Hood “giving back to the people”
→ while actually gutting the only law keeping healthcare affordable
and
→ giving insurance companies and billionaires everything they want
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