M4A? Medicare For All.
back in 2019 I wrote about this proposal….a proposal that I feel has some merit….for those that may have missed my post…..it explains what this policy would look like…..
I bring up this because of the plan that the GOP and Donny are offering the people….
The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it’s the House’s turn to show what it can do. Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, a last-minute sprint as his party refuses to extend the enhanced tax subsidies for those who buy policies through the Affordable Care Act, also called ObamaCare, which are expiring at the end of the year, per the AP. Those subsidies help lower the cost of coverage. Johnson huddled behind closed doors in the morning—as he did days earlier this week—working to assemble the package for consideration as the House focuses the final days of its 2025 work on health care.
“House Republicans are tackling the real drivers of health care costs to provide affordable care,” Johnson said in a statement announcing the package. He said it would be voted on next week. Later Friday, though, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, “House Republicans have introduced toxic legislation that is completely unserious, hurts hardworking America taxpayers, and is not designed to secure bipartisan support. If the bill reaches the House floor, I will strongly oppose it.”
The House GOP offered a 100-page-plus package that focuses on long-sought GOP proposals to enhance access to employer-sponsored health insurance plans and clamp down on so-called pharmacy benefit managers. Republicans propose expanding access to what’s referred to as association health plans, which would allow more small businesses and self-employed individuals to band together and purchase health coverage. Proponents say such plans increase the leverage businesses have to negotiate a lower rate, but critics say the plans provide skimpier coverage than what’s required under the Affordable Care Act.
The Republicans’ proposal would also require more data from pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, as a way to help control drug costs. Critics say PBMs have padded their bottom line and made it more difficult for independent pharmacists to survive. Additionally, the GOP plan includes mention of cost-sharing reductions for some lower-income people who rely on ObamaCare, but those don’t take effect until January 2027. The emerging package doesn’t include an extension of an enhanced tax credit for millions of Americans who get insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act. More here.
This proposal is pure GOP manure!
It will help very few secure adequate and inexpensive health care.
People are starting to wake up to the problem that expanding health coost will do to their family…..
In less than a month, barring some kind of congressional intervention that probably isn’t going to happen at this point, the ACA subsidies are going to end and monthly premiums are going to skyrocket for the 90 percent of ACA enrollees who are relying on them.
Americans aren’t too happy about that — even during the shutdown, over 70 percent of us still wanted to see them extended, including half of Republicans (also — 72 percent of “non-MAGA” Republicans).
This may be part of why recent polling has shown that a large majority of Americans are once again in favor of Medicare for All.
It’s true! A survey from Data For Progress published late last month found that 65 percent of us either strongly or somewhat support “creating a national health insurance program, sometimes called ‘Medicare for All,’” including 49 percent of Republicans.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/medicare-for-all-starting-to-look
Time to stop playing favorites and think will be best for the health of your family.
I feel strongly that M4A is the way to go.
Thoughts?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
There is no way on earth that I would ever trust anything that Speaker Johnson touches or says, Bible in one hand and the devil up his ass.
He is a yukky person. chuq
You have to remember that this is a fellow who, at a religious conference or political event of some sort shortly before he was made speaker he proclaimed himself to be the modern day Moses. He was appointed by God to lead his people out of the bondage of the evil liberals. He’s got a bigger ego than Trump does.
There are also rumors, credible ones, that Johnson is going to be the GOP candidate for president because the only person in the party they hate worse than him is Vance.
Thank goodness I have access to Medicare.
AMEN! It could be a bit better but at least it is a help chuq
They are showing their true colours that they could not care less about ordinary Americans who cannot afford proper healthcare. The sad thing is that those most affected probably voted for the people doing this to them. Will they have learned a lesson? I doubt that.
Best wishes, Pete.
I doubt it as well….they have had decades to see what this will do to them and yet they are blind to the results. chuq
I’ve been following your blog for a few months now, and this might be my favorite post yet! You have such a gift for taking complicated ideas and making them accessible to everyone. I also really appreciate how you acknowledge different perspectives and don’t pretend there’s only one right way to approach things. The nuance in your writing is something I don’t see enough of online these days. Looking forward to whatever you publish next!