'Obamacare' wars heat up in 2024 race as Biden and Trump clash over subsidies

BeatMan

Literotica Guru
Joined
Mar 22, 2020
Posts
1,147
President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for extending a subsidy boost under the Affordable Care Act that is set to expire after 2025, underscoring one of the most immediate health care policy implications of the upcoming election.

The president boasted that he made the ACA — also known as "Obamacare" — “stronger than ever before” by signing into law enhanced subsidies under the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. That has helped push ACA enrollment to an all-time high of 45 million people, according to government figures.


“I enacted tax credits to save an average of $800 per person per year, reducing health care premiums for millions of working families under the ACA. Those tax credits expire next year,” Biden said during a campaign event in North Carolina. “I’m calling on Congress to make that $800 expanded affordable health care tax credit permanent. Otherwise, millions of Americans with that coverage could lose that coverage.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...s-heat-biden-trump-clash-subsidies-rcna145187
 
You don't see much repeal-and-replace pushback from mainstream Republicans any longer, Americans have accepted it and even gotten used to the idea that rejection for pre-existing conditions is a bad thing.

Naturally Honest Don Trump is tilting at windmills, promising that he has something better/cheaper/prettier, when of course he doesn't. He just cannot get over the fact that this was enacted during the Obama administration.
 
The US healthcare system is an abomination but neither party has a plan to do anything about it.

It’s nice that Obamacare helps pay soaring insurance premiums, but that does nothing to constrain the runaway medical bills at the root of the problem.

If only the rest of the developed world had developed multiple options that provide better outcomes and don’t bankrupt people (or the nation). Then we could easily pick and choose from the best examples …
 
Back
Top