Obamacare

While the Trump Regime keeps trying to entertain the public with Trump as the ringmaster of the circus, there are actually real things happening, most of them terrible.

The US Congressional Budget Office estimates that it will spend $700-billion on subsidies this year to help pay the health-care premiums for Americans under the age of 65. The extravagant benefits of the government's so-called 'affordable health care' has forced insurers to raise premiums by 34% in 2018. [...]

Selling rights, unjust desserts and the Southwest drought + this day in history w/the Norco shootout and our song of the day by Lilly Hiatt on your Morning Monarchy for May 9, 2018.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act repealed the individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act that requires people who reject the insurance to pay a penalty of $695 or 2.5% of their income. However, Obamacare is still in effect and requires employers with businesses with 50 or more full-time employees to pay for their full-time employees health insurance, regardless of the cost. This is forcing many employers to reduce the number of full-time employees or go out of business altogether. [...]

In the United States, where health care costs are bankrupting Americans more than any other type of debt, urgent care centers (UCC) are on the rise, and more Americans are leaving their primary care physicians behind in favor of them.
At John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) in Fort Worth, Texas, there’s a program for low-income residents called JPS Connections, which intends to act as a kind of “service of last resort” for those unable to access health care via state, federal, or pharmaceutical assistance.

The court ruled that the subsidies were unlawful, but no one will be punished. When politicians are not held accountable for their crimes, there is no reason to expect that such crimes will ever cease. [...]

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Bureaucratic systems always are expensive because there is no incentive for efficiency or quality service - only the free market without political intervention can do that. [...]

Protesters supporting people with disabilities gather outside the White House in Washington, May 15, 2017. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) was elected to represent the people of Connecticut.
But it seems now he thinks backing war crimes and anti-Russian genocide in Ukraine is a better allocation of his time – and the people’s money.