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valleyrogue

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5. No jobs, no food are more crucial than health insurance subsidies.

Reply to angrychair (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 12, 2025, 10:33 PM

6 hrs ago

Health insurance is not the same as health care.

Tell it to federal workers they should go without pay or the 42 million people who had SNAP benefits withheld that they should go without in favor of trying to keep health insurance subsidies which affect people who are better off in general such as small business owners.

Oh, and tourism is the lifeblood of places like Las Vegas, and if people don't visit, jobs are lost. So those people don't eat, and they don't have insurance, either.

Nobody "caved" except the GOP. There was a lot more at stake than ACA subsidies.

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SocialDemocrat61

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Easy angrychair 7 hrs ago #4

No jobs, no food are more crucial than health insurance subsidies. valleyrogue 6 hrs ago #5

It's easy to stand on principle SocialDemocrat61 6 hrs ago #6