When you work full time at a small company, earn a decent living and now thanks to Republicans, can’t afford healthcare.

Hot take, the entire healthcare system in America needs reformed. Problem is that it makes too much money as-is so it’s not changing.

The Affordable Care Act is a poor design. It threw millions of people onto the health care system who didn’t have the means to make monthly payments, so those costs have to be spread out to those who do make monthly payments causing huge increases year after year. Biden was able to cover up the mess by increasing government handouts during COVID, but that was not sustainable longer term.

In addition, as with every large government program, it is most likely riddled with fraud and abuse. How much of the money is being laundered?

There needs to be a new design. But it may also be very expensive. That’s just the nature of it. If you want to cover pre-existing conditions, poor people, illegal immigrants, and whoever else needs and wants healthcare, somebody has to pay the bills. That’s you. That’s your monthly premium.

One idea I’ve seen around this past week: Maybe if some of the existing government fraud (up to $1.5T or more annually) can be rooted out, money can be redirected to help subsidize healthcare.

We got money to invade Venezuela but can’t take care of our poorest citizens. Remember this when it is time to vote.

**Estimated Cost of Buildup:** Independent analysts suggest the months-long naval buildup and the surgical strike likely cost the Department of Defense in the **hundreds of millions to low billions of dollars**, though these are categorized under existing “contingency” budgets.

The current reasons for the raise in costs have been directly tied to Obamacare.

Don’t hate Republicans for not extended COVID era subsidies that only added fuel to the fire.

health insurance is the biggest barrier to competing inthe marketplace, which overwhelmingly favors the bigger business with bigger leverage.

healthcare not being single payer singlehandedly hurts the economy as smaller, innovative companies can’t pay that large health insurance bill every year that larger coroprations can foot

Never meant to be permanent. They were passed during Covid. But I get it, people like free money and will vote for who gives them the most.

I’m not even against a universal healthcare system at this point, but it’s better to stay logically consistent and let covid era subsidies expire once COVID is over.

It is not a parties fault. Those subsidies were always meant to be temporary. Even the dems at the time, did not want to extend them due to the outrageous cost. It’s the insurance companies you should be upset with. They drive the costs.

If Obama care is so great why are we subsidizing it. The republicans don’t have a better plan. But let’s stop acting like the republicans are responsible for what Obama care has become it’s the democrats plan. It was a bad piece of legislation from day one and it was built on lies “ you can keep your own doctor” and on and on and on and everyone knows it’s bad. It was bad way before republicans shut down Covid subsidies and it’s still bad. Sure republicans just made it more expensive recently by not subsidizing it, but it’s a failed democrat plan and we need to get rid of it. Above and beyond that Both parties need to figure this shit out immediately because even if you get your subsidies it’s still way unaffordable..

Not Congress, it’s almost exclusively republicans in Congress and the President blocking this.