The shutdown debate over expiring enhanced ObamaCare subsidies has put Republicans on the defensive over health care, reopening old wounds over the 2017 attempt to repeal and replace the law.

Fifteen years since the Affordable Care Act was passed, the scars from the repeal effort and the GOP’s lingering disgust for the law are influencing the party’s scattered response.

While Republicans are united in criticizing the law and the need for subsidies, there is no clear plan on how to deal with rising premiums if those subsidies are allowed to expire.

  • TehWorld@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Their voters don’t care. They’ll pay through the nose since it’s going to get sliced off to spite their face that is being eaten by a leopard.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        10 hours ago

        I don’t think it’s about the solvency, I am more willing to talk with and interact with the homeless than most and there are a dangerously high number of the homeless who are pro-Republican even though a lot of those policies make their already difficult lives harder.

        I mean this genuinely, they would become homeless to stick it to the libs and nothing will change their mind, even losing house and home.