Voters will view the Democrats as complicit in denying them affordable healthcare, and it can cost them the midterm elections. Insisting on the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies before approving the Continuing Resolution provided them their strongest appeal to all voters, including Republican voters.
The Democrats settled for a promise that the Senate will vote on a bill to extend the subsidies by the end of the second week of December when Speaker The Democrats who voted with the Republicans are either stupid or have been corrupted by our Chief Corrupter, President Trump.
Open Enrollment in ACA coverage for 2026 begins on November 1st. The subsidies are extremely unlikely to be adopted by then, so the options that millions of Americans will be left with will require higher premiums and lower coverage.
Republicans have been trying to cut health benefits for years and currently target Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Democrats ignored the fact that Trump’s obscene tax cuts are part of a decades-long sinister plan to increase our deficits and national debt, and create shortfalls so they can throw up their hands and lament that they have no option but to cut America’s safety nets.
