📣 Programming Note: I recently joined Ana Marie Cox & Open Mike Eagle on the Past Due Podcast for an hour to discuss how to navigate the crazy 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Period. Tune in!

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⚠ Outil sur le projet de loi 7 et sa volonté de démantèlement de l'action communautaire autonome

C'est quoi le projet de loi 7? Le FAACA, le FQIS, la PRAC, à part beaucoup de lettres c'est quoi? C’est quoi les enjeux de la fusion? Quel est le contexte de droite qui entoure cette fusion? À quoi on peut s'attendre et à quoi on doit se préparer en construisant un rapport de force?

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Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" (25 Nov 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/25/open-season/

Stuart Stevens exposes how millions face premium hikes as Republicans refuse to extend ACA tax credits, directly harming their own voters. This critical decision underscores the GOP's healthcare failure. Read his sharp analysis at https://www.alternet.org/gop-strategist-republican-collapse/ #GOP #Healthcare #ACA #Politics

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON: Trump's (delayed?) #ACA proposal is even worse than I thought: acasignups.net/25/11/25/dan...

Danger, Will Robinson: Trump's...

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON: Trump's (delayed?) #ACA proposal is even worse than I thought:

https://acasignups.net/25/11/25/danger-will-robinson-trumps-delayed-aca-proposal-even-worse-i-thought

The Hill reports: What's next for 22 million Americans as Trump considers a two-year Obamacare subsidy extension after years of opposition? The sudden reversal puts Republicans in a bind as a January cost cliff looms. https://www.alternet.org/trump-healthcare-2674340809/ #Healthcare #ACA #Politics

"As the Republican leadership trifecta in Washington scrambles to address that imminent spike in premiums for millions of Americans, health care costs are emerging as a new flashpoint in next year’s midterm elections. Polling shows staunch nationwide support for the Affordable Care Act, with 64 percent of Americans holding a positive view of the policy..."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/georgia-republicans-trump-health-care-midterms-00666216

#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #TaxCredits #subsidies #georgia #UScongress #USpol

🚨 UPDATED: Trump's (temporarily?) aborted #ACA tax credit "proposal" includes even more poison pills than I thought: acasignups.net/25/11/25/tru...

Trump set to reverse himself o...

White House circulates a plan to extend Obamacare subsidies as Trump pledges health care fix.

@AssociatedPress reports: "The subsidies were at the heart of the Democrats’ demands in the government shutdown fight that ended earlier this month."

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#ACA #Obamacare #News #USPolitics #Trump #Insurance

Trump to push new Republican plan on ACA subsidies – Axios

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Trump to push new Republican plan on Obamacare subsidies

• By Adriel Bettelheim, and Peter Sullivan, and Maya Goldman

President Trump as soon as this week is due to outline a new initiative that calls for a short-term extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies in exchange for new eligibility limits and other changes.

Why it matters: Mounting concern about medical costs and the looming expiration of enhanced ACA tax credits could amp up affordability concerns and give Democrats a potent weapon heading into an election year.

• Democrats made ACA financial assistance a centerpiece of the recent government shutdown fight.

What we’re hearing: Trump plans to propose a framework that would address spiking premiums by extending for two years the enhanced ACA tax credits, which are due to expire at the end of the year, according to sources familiar, speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the talks.

• It would put an income limit on who’s eligible for the tax credits and require recipients to make a minimum premium payment, eliminating $0 premium plans that Republicans say fuel fraud.
• The plan also would encourage people to buy lower-premium options on the ACA exchange.
• For individuals who downgrade their coverage, the difference in costs would be distributed to an health savings account provided with taxpayer dollars.

Still unresolved in the larger battle over the subsidies is whether there would be new prohibitions on using any financial assistance for elective abortions.

• Adding Hyde Amendment language to any deal would be highly controversial, with Democrats insisting there’s already a mechanism to segregate taxpayer funds so they’re not used to pay for the procedure.
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday and teased that an announcement on health care costs would come this week.

Context: Trump recently has been adamant about not signing a straightforward extension of ACA subsidies, saying the money should be directed away from insurance companies and sent directly to consumers to shop for health services.

• Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) have proposed ACA subsidy alternatives in recent weeks that would use tax-privileged savings accounts.

The White House and Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to requests for comment.

• MS NOW was the first to report the existence of the new Trump plan.

Go deeper: Trump admin pushes back on rising health care costs

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump to push new Republican plan on ACA subsidies

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"Fascinating reaction from Hassan/Shaheen being warm to Trump's HC proposal."
-SM Kim

One plan that's circulated,⚡would extend #ACA subsidies for 2 years, impose income cap of 700% of federal poverty level.🚨Nothing final until it comes from Trump.

The draft plan suggests that Trump is open to it -as #Republicans search for a broader policy solution to a fight that has long flummoxed the party. The tax credits expire at the end of the year.

#Health #Healthcare #USPol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-affordable-care-act-proposal-subsidies-democrats-dcbd606d8c35f403136b9547d88e0449

Because they have NEVER been able to come up with anything better or even equal, #Trump, who has repeatedly denounced the #AffordableCareAct [#ACA aka #Obamacare] as a “disaster,” is considering backing an extension of #insurance subsidies tied to the #health #law that are set to expire at the end of the year, according to a senior White House official.

#HealthInsurance

Politico reports that the White House is preparing a health care policy that includes a 2 year extension of #ACA subsidies. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-expected-propose-aca-subsidy-extension-premium-deadline-nears-report-says-2025-11-24/

📣 Trump apparently set to reverse himself on #ACA tax credits...but with several poison pills included... acasignups.net/25/11/24/tru...

Trump set to reverse himself o...

📣 Trump apparently set to reverse himself on #ACA tax credits...but with several poison pills included...

https://acasignups.net/25/11/24/trump-set-reverse-himself-tax-creditsbut-several-poison-pills-included

"A higher Medicare premium🚨set to go into effect in 2026 will push the monthly change >$200 for the 1st time, with the increase likely to erode next year's COL increase for millions of #SocialSecurity recipients."

2026 will be a difficult year, for the US/globally: #Hunger, sickness, suffering, death... much of it bc of the #TrumpRegime/enablers: #Republicans, #oligarchs, #media...
#Medicare #ACA #Fascism #Immigrants #Detention #Deportations #GOPDeathCult #Protest #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicare-2026-premium-part-b-hike-social-security-cola/

Jake Traylor reports, what does Trump's healthcare plan mean for millions? The White House delayed its healthcare proposal after congressional backlash over extending Obamacare subsidies. Discover the details of the GOP opposition and its potential impact on the Affordable Care Act here: https://www.alternet.org/trump-health-care-republicans/ #ACA #HealthCare

Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect

Health and Social Policy

Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement

The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.

by Ryan Cooper, November 18, 2025

Republicans, for once, are sounding downright squeamish about onrushing massive cuts to Obamacare subsidies, with premiums on the exchanges expected to more than double on average starting next year. GOP House committee chairs are reportedly having some “brainstorming sessions” about what to do, and House Speaker Mike Johnson claims that they will “be rolling out some of those ideas” at some point.

So far, the genius idea in the lead is Trump’s pitch to reroute subsidies from health insurance companies to the American people, so they can buy health care. (House Republicans have already filed a bill that looks like this.) When asked whether people wouldn’t then just use that money to buy health insurance, Trump replied, “Ahh … some may. I mean, they’ll be negotiating prices.” Congratulations, folks, you now get to be your own private dealmaker with the health care system, and with your purchasing power and risk pool of one household, I’m sure you’ll get the best price!

More from Ryan Cooper

The stupidity is the point. For decades now, the Republican Party has been dedicated to the proposition that rich people are too highly taxed and the working and middle classes get too many benefits from the government. With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, they have finally caught the car. Medicaid and Obamacare have been slashed to free up budget headroom for tax cuts heavily slanted to the wealthy. Republicans don’t have a “health care plan” per se because this is their plan: to take your health care funding and give it to Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the rest of the fascist billionaire class.

American conservatism is a strange political beast. Like all conservatisms across the world, it stands in defense of hierarchy and privilege, but it is welded clumsily to 19th-century orthodox capitalism. By this view, all income should come from working or owning property, and all goods and services should be obtained through the market. It would be unjust for anyone to receive a welfare benefit from the government, because they did not work to earn it. This is a philosophical problem for conservatism, as George Scialabba writes, because capitalism regularly and wildly disrupts the established social order as technologies and businesses evolve. (For the record, this view is also very stupid.)

But it’s a much more practical problem for a Republican trying to write a health care policy. Health insurance is straightforwardly impossible to square with capitalist morality for reasons a child can understand. Most obviously, people routinely get very sick or injured through no fault of their own, and require care that is far more expensive than they can afford out of pocket. Sometimes people have chronic conditions that cost many multiples of what they could ever possibly earn. Therefore, unlike the market for car or home insurance, where each person is charged exactly what they are statistically expected to claim (plus a margin of profit), any functioning health insurance scheme must have systematic transfers from the young and healthy to the elderly and sick.

With a pure market approach, only the very rich will be able to get all the health care they need. Even people making well into six figures will not be able to afford elaborate surgery or cutting-edge therapies out of pocket. The poor—or really anyone living paycheck to paycheck—will not get health care at all. Before Obamacare, that was the reality for many, with the only “insurance” available on the market being de facto worthless if you ever actually needed it.

This is what led early socialists and social democrats to advocate for national health insurance, run by the government. If the market is a fundamentally stupid way to pay for medical treatment, then throw everyone onto the same program, and fund it out of taxes. That way, the risk pool and the funding base will be as large as possible, people will be charged based on their ability to pay, and all citizens will be permanently insured. And historically, the fact that both the elderly and the poor were largely uninsured up through the early 1960s was a major motivation for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid.

Republicans have hated Medicare and Medicaid since the moment they were proposed, because they’re welfare programs. Ronald Reagan got his start in politics with an unhinged mini-documentary claiming Medicare would lead to a totalitarian dictatorship. Historically, Medicare has been too politically secure to touch—at least for now—but Republicans finally took a trillion-dollar bite out of Medicaid in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Editor’s Note: Featured top image by WP AI.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect

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