How is this following the teachings of Jesus and Christian Tenents?
For all their talk about being good Christians, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, John Thune, and the vast majority of Legislative Republicans showed their hypocrisy again towards the non-millionaire and billionaire class of the American People by giving them the holiday gift of higher health insurance rates in 2026.
Or perhaps their version of Christianity is one where they preach kindness and compassion to members of the Fortune 500, and everyone else who needs health care, food stamps, housing, utility, and education assistance can go to Hell.
Last week, the United States Senate blocked competing health care measures.
The Democrats offered a clean three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies. It was blocked.
The Republicans offered a plan that would have increased people’s out-of-pocket costs by offering the fiction of lower premiums through health savings accounts that would only serve to provide people with junk health insurance plans that would help no one financially or health-wise.
Earlier today, House Republican leadership, obsessed with doing everything in their power to cripple the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, decided not to put a measure for consideration on the House floor that would extend the subsidies.
Instead, they are offering a measure that, while it has some interesting prescription drug reduction and small business association insurance features, would not extend the subsidies and would throw an average of 100,000 people a year off the Obamacare Insurance rolls.
Meanwhile, after ten years, Unstable Genius and Art of the Fraudulent Deal Donald Trump still has not given the American People his health care plan that he claimed would be better and less expensive than Obamacare.
Reaction to the House leadership screwing over the American People again from members of Arizona’s Democratic Delegation came quickly.
Representative Yassamin Ansari posted:
Representative Adelita Grijalva posted:
Representative Greg Stanton posted:
Senator Mark Kelly posted:
Senator Ruben Gallego posted:
One interesting condemnation worth noting here is politically endangered New York Republican Representative Mike Lawler, who railed against his party’s House leadership for not having the guts to allow a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies. He also railed against Democratic House Leadership for not releasing their members to sign a discharge petition to allow a vote on a bipartisan compromise that would couple an ACA extension with health insurance reforms.
Whatever one may think of Lawler, there is something to the political adage of ‘take half a loaf now’ and come back for the rest later.
Take the bipartisan compromise and campaign on offering something better for the American People next year and in 2028.
Democrats are taking a wait-and-see approach on the outcome of the Republican infighting to see which discharge petition health care legislation to support.
Unfortunately, time is running out for the American People thanks to Trump, Johnson, and Thune giving them the holiday gift of higher health insurance rates.
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