Good conversation (with transcript) about the ACA, and the “coming premium apocalypse”.

The coming premium apocalypse, the shutdown, and more
open.substack.com - Talking with jonathan cohn

“Thanks in part to enhanced subsidies, more than 24 million Americans now get health insurance through the exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act. But those enhanced subsidies expire Dec. 31, which will be apocalyptic for many people; and Democrats have made extending them their key demand in the shutdown fight.

So this seemed like a good week to talk with Jonathan Cohn, who has been following the ACA and its ramifications since the beginning, and wrote a terrific piece about Republican lies regarding what’s at stake now. Transcript follows:”

Here’s that piece about Republican lies:
thebulwark.com - Republican trump gop government shutdown argument illegal aliens is giant lie

Seriously, how do these people live with themselves? Vance, Johnson, et al claim to be devout Christians, and yet spew these lies. The means justify the ends, I guess.