‘It’s terrifying.’ Wyoming leads country with highest jump in Obamacare costs: For a 60-year-old Wyoming resident earning $63K a year, the average monthly ACA premium costs are increasing by 421%.
Truly an example, for Wyoming, of play stupid games, win stupid prizes, which we're seeing a lot of now days. Chaining ourselves to the far right is proving to be a huge mistake in nearly everything.
Republicans have been opposed to the Affordable Health Care Act from the very beginning, but have failed to repeal it, and have failed to offer any alternatives to it. The act itself definitely has flaws, but ironically the flaws that exist are due to ongoing right wing opposition to national health care, which every other advanced nation has.
The credit system that the AFHA currently has came in during the Covid pandemic, and because of it, given that so many people were out of work. Removing them will cause a massive jump in insurance rates. None of this is a surprise to people who have looked at it, and frankly I suspect its a backdoor path to Republicans removing the system on the basis that it's too expensive and hence a failure.
It might also prove to be the straw that breaks the back of resistance to national health care. Thousand will not be able to afford insurance and it'll be a health crisis. Populists on the right will receive the blame for it while those on the left, like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez will pick it up, arguing for a national system. The political winds are already turning against the Republicans and this will make it worse for them.
Because of the cost of healthcare, this is an area where the principals of subsidiarity, as well as the principal of solidarity, really call for a basic national system, which shouldn't be all that hard to create. Such a system would cover basic health care. Elective matters of a non life threatening nature it wouldn't. And it wouldn't cover the "medical" items in the culture wars either, such as abortion
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