Obamacare subsidies impact only a tiny minority of Americans... most of whom are Stepford Dems...
located in blue states.
Only about 22 million people have health insurance through the Obamacare marketplace. That’s out of a national population of 340 million. So right away, we are talking about only 6.5% of Americans who are affected by the policy change. And only about 2 million would lose their subsidies altogether. BUT... those 2 million were never supposed to be eligible for subsidies as the program was originally intended. That’s because their income is more than 400% of the federal poverty level.
The enhanced Obamacare subsidies were passed during the COVID crisis. Whether those increased subsidies were justified at the time is beside the point; what matters is that we are no longer in a COVID crisis. People are no longer sitting at home because their jobs were shut down by government mandates, and so it makes sense that enhanced subsidies are going away just like the crisis did.
Nonetheless, more folks "currently" blame the Republicans for the shutdown... based in the historical reality that they have been behind so many shutdowns in the past.
On the other hand, very very few people shall be impacted by the shutdown, other than Federal employees, who are also Stepford Dems.
The longer the shutdown lasts the more folks will simply see it as an annoying news item.
Oh.. and Chucky and Hakeem are not exactly the best sales team.
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The Washington Post declares that Obamacare was never really affordable.
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