@allenanalysis Members of Congress exempted themselves from the ACA. THATS RIGHT. THIS WONDRRFUL healthcare program they are fighting for they don’t even want to use.
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Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez just delivered one of the most powerful lines of the night:
“I am a cancer survivor. If it weren’t for the Affordable Care Act, I would not be able to get insurance.”
That’s not politics, that’s life and death.
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@SenatorBennet If the ACA is so wonderful why does it need to be subsidized for people to use it? Politicians want it because it allows insurance companies to inflate premiums and send their kickbacks in.
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When we passed the Affordable Care Act, we made historic progress in making health care attainable for working people.
After years of Republicans trying to take that health care away, we cannot give up our fight now, as millions are at risk of losing their premium tax credits and their coverage.
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@namwella1961 Has nothing to do with GOP. the dems are the ones that made the subsidies expire this year.
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@capksharma @SenSanders All subsidies do is allow insurance companies to inflate premiums and kick it back to politicians like Bernie. He should talk about how much he receives from big pharma and insurance companies when he talks. For full disclosure
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@SenSanders Republicans' push to let ACA subsidies expire shows disregard for 20 million Americans facing doubled premiums. Their divisive stance risks healthcare access, ignoring broad public support for affordability. Prioritize people over politics. #Republicans
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I’m no great fan of the ACA.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
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@SenSanders That’s not the governments job you fucking moron. You used to say the millionaires were the problem, until you became one. Exactly how do you do that on a government salary? You want to share the wealth? Start with your own you bumbling old man.
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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@SenSanders Fuck uou Bernie. Want share the wealth? Start with yours. You e lived on the public teet most of your adult life. All I hear you do is talk about how other millionaires are evil. Guess what asshole you are the elite. So F off
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Yes, Mr. President: You’re right. We do have “the worst health care” of any major country.
Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right.
The solution: Medicare for All.
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@dollymad1812 @KeithOlbermann @SenSchumer @SenatorShaheen @SenatorHassan @SenJackyRosen @CaptMarkKelly @ChrisCoons @SenAngusKing @SenFettermanPA You fucking moron. Dems were the ones who scheduled the subsidies to end in the first place. If obummer care was so good why did it need subsidies to get people to use it? All they are doing is using taxpayer money to pay off the big insurance companies.
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If @SenSchumer @SenatorShaheen @SenatorHassan @SenJackyRosen @CaptMarkKelly @ChrisCoons @SenAngusKing @SenFettermanPA allow this temporary small reopening without the extension of ACA subsidies they should NEVER run for elected office again!
All premiums will go up Jan 1st thanks to them!
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Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings
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@KeithOlbermann Your career has been over for years. You useless washed up piece of excrement.
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@theophilus367 @briantylercohen If it worked it wouldn’t need to be subsidized you fucking moron.
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@briantylercohen Republicans have been trying to kill the ACA for over a decade, not because it failed, but because it worked.
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Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
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@briantylercohen If obummer care was so good why does it need subsidies for people to use it? Because it’s how democrats repay their big insurance company donors.
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@shannonrwatts They have come up with plenty of alternatives. Democrats have shot them all down. Fucking moron
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You’ve had {checks notes} FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS to come up with an alternative and you haven’t. Stop making Americans suffer because you’re incompetent.
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
We should not be made to continue flooding health insurance companies with taxpayer dollars under Obamacare as the price to open up the government. I find Senator Schumer’s demands ridiculous and equivalent to political hostage taking to continue bad policy. Under Obamacare, health insurance companies’ average weighted stock prices have exploded – a more than 1000% increase – because they’re the biggest winners of Obamacare. In 2010, President Obama promised that healthcare premiums would go down by $2500 per family. To the contrary, from 2013-2019 premiums under Obamacare increased over 100% with no end in sight. Therefore, my no vote will be an unequivocal rejection of Senator Schumer’s very bad idea.
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@BenjaminNorton Hey dumbass. If the shareholders of the company think he deserves it who are you to argue?
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The US economy is not real; it's just a big billionaire Ponzi scheme.
75% of Tesla shareholders approved a $1 TRILLION pay package for Elon Musk.
$1,000,000,000,000.
Tesla only made $7.13 billion in net income in 2024.
This is so stupid it defies basic math and reality itself
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@RonFilipkowski Anyone with half a brain knows Trump and the Republicans caused this shutdown.
Imagine the cruelty — building a ballroom, hosting Halloween parties, and entertaining world leaders while 42 million Americans can’t afford food and are lining up at food banks.
How soulless do you have to be to cut funding?
This is what MAGA voted for.
#GOPShutdown #Trump #MAGA #TrueNorthPerspective
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Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else.
Republicans said no.
So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS.
Republicans OWN this shutdown.
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@RonFilipkowski The subsidies were scheduled to end now by democrats. Now they want to extend them. If obummer care is so good why do we need sub to make people get it?
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@DarrigoMelanie Yes because their incentive to produce more is to give you more of their money. What a moron.
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“Billionaires will leave if you tax them,” is a myth created by billionaires so you won’t tax them.
Annmarie Hordern@annmarie
Mood on Wall Street following Mamdani’s victory: Jim Zelter: Apollo is “committed to” NYC. “He needs to get a leadership team that can take on the challenges of the most complicated city in America.” Ralph Schlosstein: “I am certainly not a socialist… I do care deeply about the city, and I’m not going anywhere, whoever the mayor is. I’m going to do whatever I can to help him be successful.” Bill Ackman: “Now you have a big responsibility. If I can help NYC, just let me know what I can do.”
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Trump claims he is "a dealmaker." Well, Mr. President: Let’s make a deal today.
Stop the doubling of health care premiums for 20 million Americans. Stop 15 million from losing their health care. Immediately reopen the government.
What are you waiting for?
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@DorothyZee1 @Markfry809 I think Hillary took them along with all the other items she attempted to steal when Billy left office. You people are fucking morons.
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@Markfry809 I want to know what happened to the contents of the East Wing. Did he gift items? Keep them? Sell them?
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