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babylonsister

(172,478 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:35 PM 3 hrs ago

House Republicans to Brainstorm on Health Care

Yay.

https://politicalwire.com/2025/11/12/house-republicans-to-brainstorm-on-health-care/

House Republicans to Brainstorm on Health Care
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard


“House committee chairs will begin having listening sessions next week with groups of Republican members on health care policy and the fate of expiring Obamacare subsidies,” Politico reports.

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House Republicans to Brainstorm on Health Care (Original Post) babylonsister 3 hrs ago OP
If republicans are brainstorming kacekwl 3 hrs ago #1
"tiny" Jack Valentino 1 hr ago #21
Oh. Where are they going to get the brain? RockRaven 3 hrs ago #2
Don't you need at least one entire brain in the group to brainstorm? (nt) pat_k 3 hrs ago #3
Repukes had 10+ years to come up with their own plan. They have nothing. sakabatou 3 hrs ago #4
15! leftieNanner 3 hrs ago #5
It's going to be a two for one coupon where nobody can afford the first one. Vouchers for those who don't need them. Hugin 3 hrs ago #7
"Well, ain't this a chronological oddity! Two weeks from everything!" sakabatou 3 hrs ago #11
The ACA is pretty much the Heritage Foundation plan leftstreet 3 hrs ago #6
They did bitch about the initial requirements that went along with it - haele 1 hr ago #19
OH--- 'no worries'--- Trump has "a concept of a plan"! Jack Valentino 1 hr ago #22
repubs don't brain "storm" - they do a brain barely-a-drizzle NewHendoLib 3 hrs ago #8
I think they are going to meet with gab13by13 3 hrs ago #9
They added all the extra $ charges on the original Obamacare wolfie001 3 hrs ago #10
Yep, he got rid of the catastrophic costs fund for insurance companies karynnj 2 hrs ago #15
I forgot all the details. Thank you! wolfie001 1 hr ago #17
Brainstorm or Brainfart?? Disaffected 3 hrs ago #12
When their brains hit the fan... thought crime 2 hrs ago #13
It will not take long markie 2 hrs ago #14
No doubt their "brainstorm" will produce RazorbackExpat 2 hrs ago #16
He just signed his yuge Xmas gift that the 8+ traitors gave him, don't expect any promises to be kept, none! nt yaesu 1 hr ago #18
WELL--- THAT'S a "contradiction in terms", isn't it??? Jack Valentino 1 hr ago #20
Let me guess. Frasier Balzov 1 hr ago #23
Think they will pull a Reagan. Xolodno 1 hr ago #24

leftieNanner

(16,071 posts)
5. 15!
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:46 PM
3 hrs ago

The ACA passed in 2010.

But I'm sure they will have something ready to go in two weeks.

Hugin

(37,113 posts)
7. It's going to be a two for one coupon where nobody can afford the first one. Vouchers for those who don't need them.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:52 PM
3 hrs ago

Yeah, and probably an unfunded health care savings account. So they can shrug and say that they have no responsibility and blame the victims for not having any money in it.

leftstreet

(38,208 posts)
6. The ACA is pretty much the Heritage Foundation plan
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:51 PM
3 hrs ago

and also modeled on Romneycare. The only bitching GOPers did about the ACA was the subsidies

There's really nothing they can do here but go...left

haele

(14,845 posts)
19. They did bitch about the initial requirements that went along with it -
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:59 PM
1 hr ago

That everyone needed to be on it or on a market or employer's plan that had similar coverage requirements it if they wanted the tax breaks and -
A minimum of health care services were required to be covered by the ACA or other health care plans that got the tax exemptions whether or not the covered person thought they needed it or not.
Remember the huge nit-picking stink about OB/GYN requirement on all the plans -
"I'm a Healthy 30 year old Man, I shouldn't have to pay extra for women's health care or Cancer screenings or Autoimmune Diseases or Geriatric Services until I'm Good and Ready to...if all I want is Catestrophic coverage, that's all I should need to get..."

Couldn't ever explain to them Health Care is not like going to a Starbucks, and why the pool had to be large enough to affordably cover everyone.
We're going to end up with the "affordable" crap they had from around 1987 to 2011, where tens of thousands of working class people a year went bankrupt or lost their homes from unexpected medical bills and - hundreds of thousands a year more went "another year putting off seeing a doctor" due to limits on annual visits and coverage until their health situation became so bad they either ended up in the ER or had to quit working due to disability - and then struggle for years in poverty trying to get on SSDI if they were too far away from retirement.
That's what the GOP now wants, because "Romney Care" is no longer needed for businesses to keep a relatively productive workforce in place; AI will cut that workforce need in half - or get rid of it altogether.
If you're not needed, you're fired - go get another job or starve.
They don't care.

Jack Valentino

(3,989 posts)
22. OH--- 'no worries'--- Trump has "a concept of a plan"!
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 12:08 AM
1 hr ago

(A concept of a plan to prevent any improvements in American health insurance costs)

gab13by13

(30,624 posts)
9. I think they are going to meet with
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 10:02 PM
3 hrs ago

the CEO's of Insurance companies who will do the brainstorming.

wolfie001

(6,477 posts)
10. They added all the extra $ charges on the original Obamacare
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 10:02 PM
3 hrs ago

Dumbass Rubio did some shenanigans that caused increased prices early during the rollout. These rePUKE fuckers will only make things worse. Protecting billionaires.

karynnj

(60,671 posts)
15. Yep, he got rid of the catastrophic costs fund for insurance companies
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:08 PM
2 hrs ago

Without it, all companies need to set rates that include the possibility of insuring one or more of the very high cost people. This raises the cost for everyone and most of the time simply leads to higher profits.

When this policy of the federal government essentially covering catastrophic costs led to a BIG reduction in overall costs as modeled by the Congressional Budget Committee.

wolfie001

(6,477 posts)
17. I forgot all the details. Thank you!
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:18 PM
1 hr ago

I've always known him (Rubio) to be a piece of trash and a phony.

markie

(23,755 posts)
14. It will not take long
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 10:55 PM
2 hrs ago

Changing the name to GOPCare or TrumpCare won’t take long….
Obama is the only part of the ACA they don’t like…. If they’re honest… oh wait….

yaesu

(8,806 posts)
18. He just signed his yuge Xmas gift that the 8+ traitors gave him, don't expect any promises to be kept, none! nt
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:33 PM
1 hr ago

Xolodno

(7,241 posts)
24. Think they will pull a Reagan.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 12:14 AM
1 hr ago

Reagan wanted to just give a block grant to each state depending on population and let them decide how to go about it. One thing about the GOP in Congress, they rather punt on an issue than deal with it every few years.

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