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.
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.