Their rich friends and donors love this idea because it lets them save more on taxes since they make way too much for healthcare subsidies. Ordinary folks don't have enough extra cash or high enough tax rates for it to help.

Yes, and one of the arguments for the ACA is that it would enable people to start businesses because they wouldn’t be chained to a job and its health insurance. Cassidy’s plan is anti-entrepreneurial, pro job lock.

And ACA enrollees can ALREADY put money into HSAs to pay for medical expenses, so unless they’re talking about increasing the limit or allowing them to be used for premiums I don’t understand what this would mean. And again, that’s useless for lower-income households who don’t have $ to set aside.

And ACA enrollees can ALREADY put money into HSAs to pay for medical expenses, so unless they’re talking about increasing the limit or allowing them to be used for premiums I don’t understand what this would mean. And again, that’s useless for lower-income households who don’t have $ to set aside.

5) Dems showed (a) it's possible to get something out of "shutting down the government" despite what the pundits said, and (b) that they could hold together for 40 days. It's not a policy win, but it changes expectations for what they can do in the future, strengthening their negotiating position.

California has a separate state-based subsidy program which is being expanded in 2026, but it’s only relevant to enrollees who earn less than 165% of the poverty line. I’ve written about that as well.

I wrote a long post about this last week; tomorrow I'll be doing a deeper dive into every state where this is a thing.

acasignups.net/25/11/06/pre...

I wrote a long post about this last week; tomorrow I'll be doing a deeper dive into every state where this is a thing.

acasignups.net/25/11/06/pre...

What state do you live in?

Update: Taking longer than expected. Hope to publish tomorrow.

Update: Taking longer than expected. Hope to publish tomorrow.

& instead of anyone pointing out any of this or how Thune betrayed Trump by not nuking the filibuster as he’s been repeatedly asked to beyond not controlling his MAJORITY caucus, beyond this CR not even passing yet, my feed is nonstop Schumer-bashing when he didn’t even vote for it as a heat shield.

The House GOP is in crisis w/ MTG is lashing out after nobody backed her for higher office & Mo Brooks(!) wrote an op-ed blasting Johnson for not swearing in Grijalva 2 entire weeks ago, the GOP budget killed the enhanced subsidies in the 1st place, & Republicans control everything…

Exactly you go pick which plan you want… he just wants to get rid of the regulations that mandate deductible maximum’s and pre-existing etc… It’s so destructive