It’s official: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won’t call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
That means higher insurance premiums will go into effect for millions of Americans who get coverage through Obamacare next year.
The speaker made the announcement Tuesday after a closed-door Republican caucus meeting, saying that leadership failed to reach a deal with centrist members to bring up an ACA amendment on a health care bill set for a vote on Wednesday.
Is this the one they pinky swore to the centrist Dems they’d vote on later?
The senate voted on it, but was struck down. So no reason for the house to do shit. Typical Republican bullshit
Ah, okay, wasn’t aware it had been inevitably struck down yet.
The blink-and-you-miss-it dud of a resolution to the longest government shutdown ever.
And now the GOP knows that Democrats will always cave, so they have no reason to not demand whatever the hell they want. They know they’ll get it.
The Republicans always knew the Democrats would cave. Controlled opposition.
It looked like they actually weren’t going to this time.
This, 100%.
They’re all on the same team and taking calls from the same lobbyists.
LOL
Typical bi-partisan bullshit.
Political incompetence from the dems who broke ranks.
“Crossing the aisle” to the party who fights to ensure the poor suffer, with a speaker who explicitly said he would make this vote not happen so the poor will suffer.
Fuck each of those spineless bags of rotten piss. I’m so goddamned tired of the endless evil.
Oh boy, no one saw that coming…
I guess this is a “good” political outcome for democrats. They can clearly point to the republicans’ failure. But what a sad state of affairs when a good political outcome means millions facing immediate healthcare cost increases. End of Jan shutdown incoming, and even more pain in 2026.
Anyone got a less morose take??
I’m European and we’re rearming like hell. Best thing to do now but it could have been so avoided so yeah not terrible here either.
Good luck!
I’m American and already armed! And practicing!
You’d better train on striking and revolting. IMO.
Increase?! Nah. This is a loss of coverage for my family. I’m unemployed, but my wife has been FT for a year, she still gets nothing.
Impossible, Jean Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Angus King and the other scumbags broke ranks specifically for this vote LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just as planned. They don’t care about you. Inaction is complicity.
Time for plan B
I love her last name, it’s magnificent.
Now that the open enrollment deadline for most of us (Dec 15) has passed and we’re locked into whatever plan we selected, it would be a slap in the face if congress extended the subsidies. It would be punishing a lot of people for being responsible and prudent, while rewarding those who procrastinated.
Obviously I would still celebrate for those who could benefit from it, but I would also be upset. For one, all the rules and polices around the 2026 ACA plans should have been finalized and set in stone months ago. Open enrollment started a month ago, and potential changes were being considered up to the final hours before folks had to finalize their decisions. That’s an enormous failure in and of itself. Personally, I have had to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what I can actually afford or even if I should go without. Ultimately I opted to select a plan, but it’s enormously less coverage at nearly the same price as I am currently paying for a substantially better plan. It’s also not the plan I would have chosen if the subsidies were still in play.
The feds can literally decide to reopen enrollment at any time. And “I deserve better because I planned, unlike those lazy, good-for-nothings” sounds pompous as fuck
The feds can literally decide to reopen enrollment at any time.
Yup.
And the president can call a special session at any time under the US Constitution, if people dying for lack of health care ever becomes any measure of a priority.
And it’s a good thing that’s not what I said!
You literally said it would be a slap in the face if they approved to extend now that you’ve picked a different plan.
If you were forced to pick a shittier plan because of the loss of subsidies, and then the subsidies were reinstated after the open enrollment period, then yeah, I can see that being a slap in the face from our government.
This is dumb. Just extend both the premiums and enrollment period. It shouldn’t be this hard to not be shitbirds.
JFC
