Party prepared to risk government shutdown and will not support GOP bill unless cuts to healthcare are reversed
It has been nine brutal months for congressional Democrats.
Relegated by voters to the minority in last year’s election, they have been powerless to stop Republicans from acting on Donald Trump’s demands to fund an immigration crackdown, strip money for foreign aid and public media, and downsize Medicaid, which provides healthcare to poor and disabled Americans.
That is set to change next week. Funding for the government expires on Tuesday, but Democrats have refused the GOP’s demands to support legislation keeping it open unless the majority agrees to reverse the Medicaid cuts, restore funding to public media and extend subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans.
Honestly it sounds mainly that you are salty that obama care did not come earlie. Which I totally get. I would have liked it in the eighties (barring that fact I would prefer a single payer system that went back to like ww2)
No I’m only salty because for me: when I hit the market place… it resulted in a scam. $3,500 premium with a $13,000 deductible, or else I paid a $3500 tax penalty to Uncle Sam. It did not result in adequate healthcare for me and actually it became harder to get to the doctor every year after. Less practicing doctors in my region.
We all would prefer a single payer system, we are the largest economy in the world. It makes no sense to not do collective bargaining as the wealthiest health care consumers Lmfaoo.