GOP lawmakers are deeply divided over whether to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, but millions of Republicans enrolled in Obamacare plans have a clear message for them — don’t let the beefed-up subsidies lapse.
Some 72% of Republican enrollees — and the same share of MAGA supporters with Obamacare coverage — favor extending the more generous assistance, which is set to lapse at year’s end, according to a new poll from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group. The same is true of 95% of Democratic enrollees and 84% of independents.
The Senate is expected to vote as early as next week on the fate of ACA, as part of a deal Democrats cut to reopen the government. But Republicans haven’t been able to agree on their own plan to put on the floor, and the White House recently withdrew a proposal to extend the subsidies amid GOP opposition.
Republicans who personally benefit from a specific program think it should be funded and Republicans who don’t can’t see why they should care about anyone else. News at 11.
Those same people on ACA wouldn’t want to fund SNAP or Social Security or whatever else unless they personally benefit. It’s a lack of empathy from all involved, and the the disagreement comes from whether or not it affects them personally.
It’s not even just a lack of empathy at this point, they’ve been actively demonizing empathy for years now.