Schumer Shutdown news: No, the expiring subsidies aren’t to blame for next year’s premium hikes

[zymurgy]

Yes, you are. You also project a lot.

Projection

The process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another.

you are a clown

forcing the wealthy to pay for things lowers costs for others. the government does create winners and losers - it is how politicians buy votes.

this is axiomatic and you are simply a retard butt hurt that I pointed out how dumb you are

 

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What we are witnessing is nothing but lies from the Democrats. They actually believe that they still control the FAKE News and can gaslight the American people.

Democrats actually believe that if they tell the lie often and repeatedly, people will think it is the truth.

No, the expiring subsidies aren’t to blame for next year’s premium hikes

Open enrollment on Obamacare‘s exchanges is upon us. People shopping for coverage will be greeted by higher premiums.

According to one recent analysis from the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, premiums for 2026 coverage will rise by 18 %. Out-of-pocket costs could go up hundreds or thousands of dollars, according to KFF.

For the Democrats holding the federal government hostage over Obamacare’s enhanced premium tax credits, this news might seem like vindication. If only Republicans agreed to extend the COVID-era enhanced premium subsidies, they argue, then exchange coverage would be affordable again.

But the end of the enhanced tax credits has little to do with the skyrocketing price of coverage. As new research from the Paragon Health Institute points out, the expiring subsidies account for just 3.3% of 2026 exchange premiums. The overwhelming majority of the rate hikes result from other factors, including the basic structure of Obamacare.

The cost of complying with the health law’s insurance market regulations has forced insurers to hike premiums steadily for over a decade. The enhanced tax credits have merely hidden that reality from consumers — and shifted more of the cost of coverage to taxpayers.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that making the enhanced subsidies permanent would cost the federal government $350 billion over the next decade. Democrats are insisting that Republicans throw hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money into a broken system that, by its very nature, is destined to keep premiums rising.

The expiring subsidies aren't to blame for premium hikes

Taxpayers can no longer afford to cover up this mess. And patients deserve reforms that can drive premiums down, not just obscure their cost.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Partially accurate, as are most right wing heavily partisan sites as the Examiner, but what the Examiner forgot to add, surely by design, is that those rates were going to rise but nowhere in comparison to the accelerated rate without the subsides.

 

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you are I am a clown

Yes you are. We already covered that you whiney dumbass.

forcing the wealthy to pay for things lowers costs for others.

Wrong. But then, you are an uneducated dumbass who voted for Kamala.

Government interventionism only increases costs to everyone and denigrates liberty.

You lower costs by having more of goods and services that are in demand. It's basic economics, something Kamala voters are clueless about.

the government does create winners and losers - it is how politicians buy votes.

They try to and fail miserably. Government should never be in the business of picking winners and losers. But alas, you are an uneducated loser and stupidly believe that Government is good and not a necessary evil.

this is axiomatic and you are simply a retard butt hurt that I pointed out how dumb you are

There you go with your moronic projecting. Kamala voters like you are everything they claim others are.

Alas, you're stupid and stupid people don't even know they are stupid.

 

[zymurgy]

Yes you are. We already covered that I'm a whiney dumbass.

trollboy is back, and boring as ever

 

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Partially accurate, as are most right wing heavily partisan sites as the Examiner, but what the Examiner forgot to add, surely by design, is that those rates were going to rise but nowhere in comparison to the accelerated rate without the subsides.

Yo, brainless halfwit, those expirations were voted for by Democrats when they passed this lame effort to save Obamacare during Covid.

If Obamacare truly did what they promised it would do, it wouldn't need never ending subsidies to mask the higher costs it is creating.

But alas, you're a stupid person who no believes that shutting down the government and using SNAP recipients and our military as leverage for a minority party acting childlike makes perfect sense. Brainless.

 

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trollboy is back, and boring as ever

Yes, you are. Not to mention what a whiney thread trolling dumbass you are. Now run along. You add nothing but stupid to any thread.

 

[zymurgy]

Yes, you are. Not to mention what a whiney thread trolling dumbass you are. Now run along. You add nothing but stupid to any thread.

blablabla goes the retard

nobody listens your endless rants of word salad. you are a bore. I see the notify, I see it is you. eyes roll, and I call you a bore. the end.

 

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blablabla goes the retard

Indeed, you do a lot of that, retard.

nobody listens your endless rants of word salad.

You speak for everyone? What a moronic, low IQ narcissistic asshole thing to believe. Calling you a moron is an insult to morons.

you are a bore. I see the notify, I see it is you. eyes roll, and I call you a bore. the end.

You cry and project a lot halfwit. Why don't you take your meds and go back to your padded cell. You're everything you brainless whine about others to be. Typical low IQ Kamala voter.

Projection

The process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another.

 

[zymurgy]

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[zymurgy]

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Yes you are. Perhaps there are no mirrors in your basement where you dwell?

 

[zymurgy]

Yes you are. Perhaps there are no mirrors in your basement where you dwell?

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Yo, brainless halfwit, those expirations were voted for by Democrats when they passed this lame effort to save Obamacare during Covid.

If Obamacare truly did what they promised it would do, it wouldn't need never ending subsidies to mask the higher costs it is creating.

But alas, you're a stupid person who no believes that shutting down the government and using SNAP recipients and our military as leverage for a minority party acting childlike makes perfect sense. Brainless.

Wrong

 

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Wrong

What part is wrong halfwit? I doubt that you even know what this is all about. Democrats created these subsudues and passed the legislation with the sunset provision they now falsley claim will hurt Americans.

Obamacare is a massive failure that has resulted in massive increases to the cost of providing health insurance benefitting big insurance companies. These are FACTS little halfwit.

These subsidies were first enhanced through the Biden-era $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus plan, formally known as the American Rescue Plan. Democrats continued these subsidies through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.

The enhanced subsidies will expire on December 31, 2025.

Democrats have contended that the loss of enhanced subsidies will result in the widespread loss of Americans’ health care; however, experts have explained that these enhanced subsidies are not for the truly needy.

Cannon said, “What the enhanced subsidies do is they subsidize people making from $129,000 all the way up to $600,000 per year. And so these are really the Obamacare subsidies for the wealthy.”

Cannon remarked, “The part that offends people is that Obamacare is still so unaffordable that people earning $129,000, $200,000, $300,000, $400,000, $500,000 a year still can’t afford it — and that’s why the government is subsidizing them.”

“The most important kind of assistance we can provide to people who are having a hard time affording health insurance is to get all the Obamacare regulations out of the way. Because if you do that, then premiums will plummet by 50 to 60 percent for most people in the Exchanges,” he continued.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) found that the Democrat counterproposal to the Republican stopgap spending bill, which would permanently extend these Obamacare subsidies, would add $1.5 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years.

 

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yawn

Indeed! You are a tiresome and brainless little troll.

 

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trollboy is back, and boring as ever

I didn't even notice you were gone, TBH.

This isn't an airport. You don't need to announce your departures and arrivals, you know.