Why do Americans tolerate this kind of political and corporate fraud? Just provide the health care minus the “skim”.
{{ It’s not an ideal mechanism, but it’s vastly better than nothing. Originally, however, the marketplaces were underfunded: The subsidies were too low, so many people still had trouble paying insurance premiums, and there was also a cutoff, with subsidies available only to individuals up to 400 percent of the poverty line.
Biden, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, largely resolved these problems, reducing maximum premium payments (net of subsidies) and eliminating the cliff at 400 percent. The result is to make health insurance coverage substantially more affordable, especially for middle-income Americans who previously earned too much to be eligible for subsidies. Hence the surge in marketplace enrollments. }}
It all goes back to the very beginning of this where the refusal to create a public option, combined with the mandate, was a gift across the aisle designed to help get the bill passed. And yes, its sad that it happened.
Geesh. And I remember when a different version of this (one with a public option) was championed by a political candidate - yet there were those that voted for her opponent in 2016. One wonders just what those Americans wanted.
Oh ya, that was you. Did you get what you wanted instead?
But has the orangeman revealed his own deplorable character to you yet?
I have a similar problem in Texas, in that my votes will go to the Republican no matter how I vote. This is why we need to abolish the Electoral College.