Jimdamick
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Trump ended a key set of Obamacare subsidies that helped lower-income enrollees pay for health care last night, a dramatic move that raises questions about the law's future.
The late-night announcement is part of Trump's aggressive push to dismantle aspects of his predecessor's signature health law after several failed attempts by Congress to repeal it earlier this year.
Nearly 6 million enrollees, or 57%, qualify for the cost-sharing payments this year, according to the most recent data from the Department of Health and Human Services. The subsidies are expected to cost the federal government about $7 billion in 2017.
The uncertainty over the subsidies' fate was a key reason that many insurers are substantially hiking their rates for 2018 -- some by more than 20%. Several major carriers dropped out of the individual market, unwilling to wait and see what Trump and his fellow cunt supporters would come up with
White House press secretary Sarah (Fat Ass) Sanders said the decision was "based on guidance from the Justice Department."
"The bailout of insurance companies through these unlawful payments is yet another example of how the previous administration abused taxpayer dollars and skirted the law to prop up a broken system," Sanders said in a statement.
Democratic leaders called the decision another instance of Trump sabotaging Obamacare.
"It is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a joint statement. "Make no mistake about it, Trump will try to blame the Affordable Care Act, but this will fall on his back and he will pay the price for it."
No he won't, he won't pay shit for it because his base still loves him, even now that their insurance will increase by an average of 20% next year, and some (hopefully a lot) will die as a result of not being able to pay for it.
They wanted and voted for it, well now their getting it, and I hope they like it when they end up broke and living in a box because they voted for Trump.
May justice be served, assholes
The late-night announcement is part of Trump's aggressive push to dismantle aspects of his predecessor's signature health law after several failed attempts by Congress to repeal it earlier this year.
Nearly 6 million enrollees, or 57%, qualify for the cost-sharing payments this year, according to the most recent data from the Department of Health and Human Services. The subsidies are expected to cost the federal government about $7 billion in 2017.
The uncertainty over the subsidies' fate was a key reason that many insurers are substantially hiking their rates for 2018 -- some by more than 20%. Several major carriers dropped out of the individual market, unwilling to wait and see what Trump and his fellow cunt supporters would come up with
White House press secretary Sarah (Fat Ass) Sanders said the decision was "based on guidance from the Justice Department."
"The bailout of insurance companies through these unlawful payments is yet another example of how the previous administration abused taxpayer dollars and skirted the law to prop up a broken system," Sanders said in a statement.
Democratic leaders called the decision another instance of Trump sabotaging Obamacare.
"It is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a joint statement. "Make no mistake about it, Trump will try to blame the Affordable Care Act, but this will fall on his back and he will pay the price for it."
No he won't, he won't pay shit for it because his base still loves him, even now that their insurance will increase by an average of 20% next year, and some (hopefully a lot) will die as a result of not being able to pay for it.
They wanted and voted for it, well now their getting it, and I hope they like it when they end up broke and living in a box because they voted for Trump.
May justice be served, assholes
I'm going to hold out and believe that no fucking way we can continue being this STUPID 
