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.
Boy you obviously did not have medical bills before or after. Its requirement on money going to care and limiting profit make a big deal along with the no prexisting conditions and required care. Unfortunately 2017 was about the best we saw of it. It actually was sorta good to get things approved end of year as the insurers had to meet their spend or give it back.
I defaulted on $20,000 worth of medical debt in 2015 and paid it off for like $2,000 to a creditor. My medical debt from pre-Obama care came with me ❤️ my deductible was $13,000 and I never hit it with Obama care. I just paid for the appointments and the additional insurance fee. So yeah, I guess maybe my experience was different than some.
Honestly it sounds mainly that you are salty that obama care did not come earlie. Which I totally get. I would have liked it in the eighties (barring that fact I would prefer a single payer system that went back to like ww2)