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The Breitbart example of reporting is one that CNN, the NY Times, and the Washington Post should strive to emulate. Rather than put their own commentary and slant on what Fetterman said, Breitbart provides a lengthy quotation and an actual six minute video so people can see the truth for themselves.
Capitalist governments do, too. Regulation is not exclusive to socialism, nor did the ACA create the practice of regulation. Many industries are regulate by law in the US.
The ACA does not set prices. Sure, it regulates them in certain ways, but the law does require private insurers to charge a set amount for health insurance. And, again, regulations exist in other industries as well, so the ACA did not create them.
Under the ACA, the government does not own the health insurance industry. Health insurance is provided through private companies.
Yes, the government does subsidize health insurance for certain people who get their health insurance through the ACA marketplace. But only in those cases.
The ACA does not remove the ability for private health insurers to make a profit. In fact, in 2023, the for-profit health insurance industry generated $25 billion in profit industry-wide. Though, to be fair, in 2024 those profits did decrease to only $9 billion.
Nothing here pertains to the ACA.
Yes, the US does have some elements derived from socialist ideals: medicare/medicaid among them, but these predate the ACA.
Gee, thanks. I'll use them all the time from now on! If only I'd investigated them earlier and decided that they epitomize the very best in unbiased journalism just like you did!
Speaker Johnson is lying. Surprise, surprise.
The Democrats need to sign the CR to get the government reopened. Them only signing it after this that and the other demands are met is unacceptable.
And a lot of people will lose the subsidies that make their health care affordable. The Democrats are fighting to prevent Republicans from ensuring that health insurance purchased through the ACA marketplace will go up. If they agree to that CR, there is no reason to believe Republicans will negotiate in good faith afterward, and every reason to believe they won't.
In other words, the GOP refuses to negotiate. They have backed the Democrats into a corner, and they're fighting back with the only tools they have available.
Democrats are demanding the COVID bonus subsidies that the Biden administration put in place to be extended for another year. Households that made over half a million dollars were eligible, and those bonus subsidies went to the insurance companies. The bottom line is that Democrats are now demanding our hard earned taxpayer dollars be provided to the insurance companies and are willing to make the American people suffer. They are holding our nation hostage, flights are being cancelled, workers are not being paid, people who need food are being denied government benefits. This is not normal government business nor normal negotiation. Changes to healthcare should be discussed and debated in Congressional hearings and meetings.
Well, yeah. That's how paying for insurance works, money goes to the insurance company.
Health care being provided through private health insurance companies is how our health care system has been set up for a while now. The ACA didn't change that.
They should be, but given that the Republicans have not been willing to negotiate for those changes in good faith, Democrats have no reason to believe they will if Democrats cave and allow health care subsidies to end, as Republicans want.
The democrats are trying to coerce the republicans into giving into their demands by holding the CR hostage so to speak.
Refusing to pay the ransom. Or negotiate with extortionist (so to speak).
So much for the idea that Congress is supposed to work FOR the people, rather than against them, huh?
Refusing to negotiate under extortion type coercion has nothing to do with being against the people. That's just worn out left-wing propaganda. "The democrats are for the poor, and the republicans are only for the billionaires". Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. The democrat politicians also have swampland and a bridge to sell you.
The GOP is trying to take away healthcare, and the Dems are trying to preserve it, while the GOP is concealing Trump's presence in the Epstein files.. It really is that simple.
It does in this case. Republicans are holding firm on ending health care subsidies for people who need them and refusing to negotiate on it.
Then tell me how Republicans are working for "the poor" by refusing to even consider extending health care subsidies while their bill cuts taxes largely benefitting those billionaires you mentioned.
The Democrats are refusing to sign the CR to reopen the government, even if that means SNAP is cut off and 1.5 million government employees go without pay.
