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Since it was designed to be a subsidyErm, no it wasn't. The current subsidies that are the subject of
the current national debate are from the COVID-era:
cato.org - Six reasons not extend enhanced obamacare subsidiesAt the center of the government shutdown is a disagreement over whether to extend a temporary pandemic-era expansion of the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits. These subsidies cover health insurance premiums for the roughly 7 percent of Americans who use the government-run Obamacare insurance marketplace. Sold as a temporary boost during the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsidies are costly, fraud-prone, and primarily pad insurance companies’ profits.
While the pandemic plus-up expires at the end of 2025, the originally designed Obamacare subsidy is permanent. The temporary expansion, enacted under the American Rescue Plan Act and later extended by the Inflation Reduction Act, increased the size and made the subsidies more widely available.I threw that last bit in there as a bone for you.
A good reason to move to single payer.Nope. I've posted the math a zillion times. Unless you folks want to double the national budget, won't work.
None of you wants to discuss the actual math.
The rest is just me educating you, as usual.
