Democrats are demanding Republicans extend "temporary" health insurance subsidies to hide the HUGE cost increases caused by their stupid Obamacare.
Ohhh wow, Government shutdown, we'll all be killed!
If you get your so-called "newz" from the lying Mainstream Media--the same group that positively swooned over Jimmy Kimmel's deliberate, evil lie about Charlie Kirks assassin--you believe their lie that the Republicans shut it down. That's total horseshit, and you could find that in the public record if you wanted to look. But of course most Americans don't wanna go to the trouble.
The truth is that the House passed a "clean" "continuing resolution," which would have kept the govt open and everything at current levels for one month, giving the parties more time to fight it out in congress.
They House sent that clean CR to the senate--where Republicans have the majority. So you'd think it would quickly pass, eh?
Nope, because Democrat leader Chuckie Schumer said all his Democrats would vote against it.
Now, young Americans--who do understand some things, like "majority"--wonder "WTF? The Dems would lose cuz the GOP has the majority, eh?" Hahahahaha! You'd sure think so, but Schumer can prevent the bill from even coming up for a floor vote, by using a thing called the "filibuster," which says the GOP needs 60 votes to bring the bill to the senate floor.
Is congress great or what?
Just kidding: congress is shit. Roughly half the members are either corrupt grandstanders, or morons like Maxine Waters. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Al Green etc.
So the govt is shut down--entirely because Schumer won't allow the CR to come to the senate floor for a straight-up vote. So the shutdown is entirely because of Schumer's refusal to allow the GOP majority to pass the "clean" CR that would have kept the government running.
If you didn't understand that, read it again. The shutdown was ENTIRELY Schumer's choice.
Question is, why would Schumer refuse to allow the straight-up vote to keep the fucking government open?
The answer is that he knows that by forcing the shutdown--AND blaming Republicans, which he can do with the eager help of the Lying, Democrat-fellating Mainstrream Media--he can fire up his base of stupid "gimmedat" voters and get more Democrat votes in next year's crucial midterm elections.
Since you don't follow politics closely, let me explain: When duh Chyna virus hit, and Fauci and Dem governors ordered everything locked down, congress passed literally TRILLIONS of dollars of "freebies" to help families whose employers had suddenly been ORDERED to shut down. Among these freebies were higher subsidies for people enrolled in the laughably-misnamed "Affordable Care Act (ACA)--Obamacare.
In March 2021, after the Dems installed bribem as president, they passed those "enhanced subsidies" (i.e. extra freebies) "as a temporary measure" (haha) as part of bribem's $1.9 TRILLION "American Rescue Plan Act." Months later the Democrats extended the "enhanced subsidies" (extra freebies) through the end of 2025 in the Democrats' laughably-misnamed "Inflation Reduction Act."
Economist Milton Friedman quipped that there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program--and the "enhanced subsidies" (extra freebies) are a perfect example--cuz once the Democrats rammed those through, they knew their voters would always want those extra thousands of dollars a year--and would fight like hell if Republicans ever proposed ending the "extra" payments.
Americans born after 1990 know nothing about how Obozo and his Dems conned voters into pushing congress to pass Obamacare. The basic principle was that your hard-working parents' tax dollars would be used to pay for health insurance for low-income people. See, since duh gruberment would be running it, dere wudn't be no greedy "profit motive," right? And wifout dat, health insurance wud be SO much less expensive, eh?
Obozo himself repeatedly used the phrase "We will bend the curve of costs," claiming the cost of health insurance would DROP once duh gruberment started running healthcare.
It sounded SO logical! So perfect!
To avoid bad comparisons to "nationalized healthcare" in the U.K and Canada (notoriously awful), the ACA was written so states would run their own programs, called "health insurance exchanges," (wait...exchanging what?), and you could only get the juicy subsidies if you got your faaaaabulous health insurance through a state program.
Got it? That was the exact wording of the damn LAW. Keep that in mind for the next five minutes (if you can).
Democrat bureaucrats in Dem-ruled states eagerly, slobberingly jumped on. Dey din' wanna miss out on dis GREAT chance to "revolutionize American healthcare!" By contrast, GOP-run states were justifiably skeptical, and didn't start their own state systems, but instead went on Obozocare's website--which immediately crashed.
"Don't worry, citizen, dis jus' a tiny glitch in duh internet! Yep yep yep!"
(As an aside: the contract for setting up the U.S. healthcare website was awarded to a Canadian company whose president was a close friend of Mooch (a.k.a. "Big Mike"). But dat just beez a coincidence, citizen! Dere wuz absolutely NO kickbacks or insider dealing AT ALL!
Only about half the states ever created "exchanges." (Love that soothing buzzword, eh?)
But much to the shock of Democrats, ALL the state programs--yes, every single one--soon crashed due to mismanagement--after flushing hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain per state. The state "exchanges" were cesspools of incompetence and mismanagement. Imagine health insurance being run by the brain-trusts who run your state's Department of Motor Vehicles and you start to get an idea of why they all crashed.
So then we saw one of the MANY "rescues" of Obozocare by the Supreme Court: The actual, y'know, words in the ACA said pipo could only get the subsidies if you bought a plan on the state "exchanges." But wait...they all crashed! So the corrupt, then-Dem-majority Supreme Court DECREED dat duh actual, y'know, words of duh law were NOT whut duh Democrats--who had drafted the disaster without allowing a SINGLE amendment by the Republicans, and passed it without a single GOP vote--intended!
Yes, John Shithead Roberts RULED dat whut duh Dems akshually intended wuz NOT whut dey wrote! See, whut duh Dems really meant wuz dat duh "subsidies" dat made Obozocare free to low-income pipo shud be available to everyone, not just pipo who bought insurance thru duh state "exchanges"--which no longer existed.
SEE, citizen? Duh "justices" looked into the intent of congress, and knew the only way to fix the law was to re-write it! Easy-peasy, eh?
Except the Constitution does NOT allow the Supreme Court to write or amend laws.
If the Supreme Court re-wrote a fatally flawed GOP law to "rescue" it, the Media would have screamed bloody murder! But to save a totally Democrat law, all the rules are suspended, eh? Dere wuz a larger principle at work here: Duh Media loved Obozo, so dey were determined to make "his signature program" work, eh? Anything to make Obozo look brilliant.
So Roberts re-wrote the damn law to make it work after the state exchanges crashed, and the Mainstream Media cheered and fawned and slobbered.
So with that saving change, regular commercial insurance companies quickly began offering the three "packages" offered by Obamacare: Gold, silver and bronze, jus' like doze Olympic medals, eh? The amount of taxpayer-funded "subsidy money" buyers got depended on the "policy-holder's" income, so in two seconds people realized that the less money you earned (or at least SAID you earned, eh?), the more free taxpayer bucks Obamacare paid. Nice!!
The Democrats' 2021 "American Rescue Plan Act" raised the "freebie" payments (which the Act carefully called "subsidies") for all, and also eliminated the cap on the amount Obamacare policyholders could earn without losing the payments. Nice!
This is what Schumer is now demanding the Republicans agree to in order to get him to agree to keep the government open.
Starting to get it yet?
The Congressional Budget Office estimates extending the freebies will cost $340 billion a year.
Not extending the "temporary" higher subsidies would result in about 1.6 million higher-income earners losing subsidies completely. Millions more would continue receiving a smaller subsidy and see their premiums rise as a result.
Starting to understand Schumer's strategy?
Many stupid Republicans--who don't see ANY "debt crisis"--were happy to extend the four-year-old "temporary" subsidies by at least one year--simply giving the Dems another chance to fire up their base a year from now. But senate Republican leaders insisted on passing the "continuing resolution" to keep the government open first, and then negotiating on extending the costly "temporary" subsidies.
Schumer refused, and bleated that Republicans were "trying to take away people's health care." Yes, he's actually said that, on camera, numerous times--because it fires up his gimmedat base.
Republicans know Americans can't follow the legislative history of how the Democrats jacked up the subsidies, so they counter by saying Democrats want to give health care to illegal immigrants.
Schumer and the Dems counter that "the law" (which is whatever they claim it is) does NOT allow the gruberment to give free or subsidized health insurance to illegals. But it doesn't. That was simply a lie, by Obozo, to get the damn thing passed. It's not in the law, and instead there's a HUGE loop-hole that allows states to use Medicare and Medicaid funding any way they want. That's how Newsom and the Cali Dems spent $12 BILLION on health care for illegals last year.
Democrats: "Dat not possible! Cuz dat beez against duh law!"
Ah, well there ya go. Hey Democrat assholes, selling illegal drugs on streetcorners is ALSO against the law. You wanna say dat don' happen either?
Here's another hoot that the Media never tells ya: Since Obozocare was rammed into law--without a *single* GOP vote--premiums have almost doubled, and deductibles have increased dramatically. (The Wall Street Journal says premiums have increased 80 percent since 2014, when the ACA went fully into effect, but have doubled since the law was first passed.) So Democrat leaders are particularly insistent on preserving the so-called "temporary" subsidies that were pitched as a temporary COVID measure, because if those "temporary" subsidies are ended, more Americans will begin to see the true rise in premiums under Obamacare.
Ooohhh, Dems do NOT want voters to know *that,* eh?
The "temporary" higher subsidies rammed through by Dems in 2021 after duh Chyna virus and the lockdowns have *totally* hidden the vast increase in the *actual* Obozocare premiums. But of course the money to pay the "subsidies" has to come from *somewhere,* right? Sure. And it comes from either taxpayers OR by *borrowing the money,* meaning increasing the national debt--which works for the Democrats cuz with the help of the mainstream media they've convinced voters it doesn't matter!
One health policy research outfit says that since the higher subsidies were enacted (by the Dems), enrollment in Obozocare has increased from 11 million to 24 million--virtually all of whom are benefiting from the higher "subsidies" that were hidden in the Democrats' "American Rescue Plan" and the Inflation Reduction Act. (Government spends trillions more and inflation supposely drops?)
Hey, do ya think higher "free" subsidies (spoiler: not free) would make more people eager to sign up for Obozocare? Without the lavish "free" subsidies, many people wouldn't buy the high-price, high deductible Obamacare coverage.
The CBO says renewing the higher subsidies would likely lead to 3.8 million *more* people signing up for Obozocare by 2035. Which of course increases the cost to taxpayers. Wow, who could have predicted *that,* eh?
Now you know why Democrats felt shutting down the gruberment over this was a great strategy, eh? The Democrat leaders realized they could get millions more votes by "fighting to keep duh awful billionaire Rethuglicans from *"cutting* healthcare!!!"
Of course it was really "extending higher 'subsidies' for signing up for Obozocare." But most Americans don't know a word of dat.
As one analyst put it, "Everything in U.S. health care is a lie. The Democrats want to keep hiding the real cost of Obamacare."
Gee, ya think?
Source.
https://reason.com/2025/10/01/democrats-shut-down-the-government-to-obscure-obamacares-failures/
