Party prepared to risk government shutdown and will not support GOP bill unless cuts to healthcare are reversed
It has been nine brutal months for congressional Democrats.
Relegated by voters to the minority in last year’s election, they have been powerless to stop Republicans from acting on Donald Trump’s demands to fund an immigration crackdown, strip money for foreign aid and public media, and downsize Medicaid, which provides healthcare to poor and disabled Americans.
That is set to change next week. Funding for the government expires on Tuesday, but Democrats have refused the GOP’s demands to support legislation keeping it open unless the majority agrees to reverse the Medicaid cuts, restore funding to public media and extend subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans.
No doubt medicaid for all would be better and even a public option (which the dems pushed for) would be a bit better. Obamacare is better than before it though with pre-existing conditions and everything being denied. Now it has gotten worse but that was because the republicans kicked out the requirement which had a cascading effect on insurers which had a cascading effect on hospitals. I will not say its awesome or what we should have but half a loaf is better than no loaf. Its a good example of incremental change unfortunately its also a good example of a step forward followed by a step back.
Just going to point out that health care quality in my experience has gone down since 1999
Yeah so I mean there is not much to discuss then. My experience has been different. It was definitely for me worse before obamacare partly with pre existing conditions, partly due to preventative care being required to be covered outside of deductible and such, and partly because they did not deny as much (which I took were from the spend requirements on care). Surviving healthcare roulette for so many years in the 80’s made me so happy to have some stability around it. I have to say though defending obamacare is one of those wierd thing. I like it better than nothing but yeah would like to get to civilized single payer system.