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pat_k

(13,835 posts)
4. I can't imagine anything people would fall for
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 07:01 PM
Oct 2025

Whatever that "plan" may be, it is guaranteed to be consistent with every other horrific action designed to increase private insurance profits by emptying the pockets of the American public.

• They already cut about 100 billion a year from Medicaid (if Democrats trade ACA subsidies for being accomplices on MAGA Murder Bill Medicaid cuts in the next budget) and added costs to administrate guaranteed-to-fail work requirements (although, kicking off millions more for technical failure to comply is a big win to R's)

• They are hell bent on eliminating enhanced ACA subsidies, doubling (and worse) premiums for people who currently receive the tax credits)

• They implemented rules that increase out-of-pocket costs for ACA and employer sponsored plans by nearly $1000 a year.

• They changed rules to lower the actuarial value of marketplace plans. This means even greater increases in costs paid by the insured.

• They plan to change Medicare Advantage with the aim of forcing people off classic Medicare and eliminating Medicare Supplement/Medgap plans. A bait-and-switch we must not fall for because the goal is to privatize and destroy Medicare.

• They plan to create an ACA "short term insurance option" that screws people over.

• Not to mention all the orders eliminating coverage for reproductive health and gender affirming care that are killing people.


The ONLY answer is universal health care.

Even if the regime formulated something they'll try to sell as universal healthcare, you can guarantee it is nothing but a grift that will be a boondoggle for cronies, and a massive shift in costs to every person with a human body that requires preventative care, and pharmaceutical/medical treatment and management for injury and disease.

The trump healthcare plan: Work harder, pay more, deny care, and kill people off.

It's the scrooge plan:

Hurry up and die and "decrease the surplus population "

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