Democrats just crack like soft cookies.
The so-called resistance group has stopped fighting, ensuring that millions of Americans will face skyrocketing health care costs, and millions more will be burying any hope that a small group will find the courage and leadership to defend against Trump.
On Sunday night, eight TurnCoot Democrats sold out all Americans paying for their health insurance through the affordable marketplaces set up by President Obama.
As has been fully reported in recent weeks, Republicans are dead set on making sure that insurance is completely within the financial reach of low-income people, offered to all low- and middle-income families.
Republicans – For reasons that are hard to understand without hating Obama, and apparently basics like the flu shot – have been killing the ACA for a long time and are now in a position to do so, for real, because of the Democrat.
Trump must be doing his old jig in the oval office.
The pain this Craven Cave-On will cause is already apparent. Prices for 2026 without government funding have been announced, and premiums have doubled on average, according to health policy researchers Health KW. It is doubled.
Insurance companies are planning to raise their prices by about 18%, just to destroy and are a sign of the need for a complete overhaul of our distorted system. That increase, coupled with the loss of subsidies starting at the beginning of next year, means a 114% increase in the cost of people who depend on this insurance. Premiums costing an average of $888 in 2025 will jump to $1,904 in 2026, according to Kff.
But it is for him that many people will be really beaten.
“On average, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 … will see annual premium payments increase by $22,600 in 2026,” Kff warns, now it will jump to 25%.
Merry Christmas, America.
While the eight Democrats who came out of their party to allow this to happen are directly responsible (thankfully Californians are not among them), the democratic leadership must be held accountable.
A party that cannot hold itself together in large votes is not a party. It is a group of people who occasionally have lunch together. Basically, they had one job: stick together.
The failure of the Democratic leadership to make sure that the votes of the senate did not end at this great moment is not only scandalous, it is depressing. For all the condemnation of Republican members of Congress for failing to uphold their duty as a check on the power of the Office of the President, here is the opposition party rolling over the health crisis.
As California Rep. RO Khanna put it on social media, “Senator Schumer is out of business and needs to be replaced. If you can’t be replaced to protect health premiums from the American people, what are you going to fight for?”
If the recent election had any lessons, it’s that son – and the electorate as a whole – are looking for courage. Love or hate Zohran Mamdani, his win as Mayor of New York City was no small part of his property acquisition. Ditto in Govt. Gavin Newlom and 50 lifts.
Mamdani put that sentiment best in his victory speech, promising an age when people ‘don’t expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for where we are. “
Before you send me an email, yes, I understand how painful it is to shut up, especially the ridiculous employees and those who will see their severance pay cut. I feel for everyone who doesn’t know how they are going to pay their bills.
But here are the facts that we will never forget. The Republicans have done you a great deal of pain to break the Democrats. Trump has found ways to pay his fired agents, while at the same time not paying critical workers such as air traffic controllers and air traffic controllers, where the chaos created by their reporting is visible and disturbing. He also threatened not to pay back some of these people when this is over.
And in the give-you-or-don’t-before, you’re actually ordered by the courts to pay those SNAP benefits and you’re being ordered. The Republicans could get together and demand that the money come out while the rest goes out, but they don’t. They wanted people to starve so the Democrats would break, and it worked.
But at what cost?
About 24 million people will be hit by these rising premiums, leaving up to 4 million unable to keep their insurance. Can’t go to the doctor for routine care. Can’t afford cancer treatment. He can’t have that lump, this pain, the broken bone he was looking at. Can’t find their child to shoot.
In many ways, this is not a California problem. Most of these people are in the south, the Republicans said that they refused to expand Mediaid when they had the chance. About 6 in 10 recipients are represented by Republicans, according to Kff, led by those who live in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi. But the American people have been clear that we want access to care for all, as a right, not an expensive privilege.
What makes it all the more wrong is that Democrats are so unwilling to give up, on an issue that unites voters across parties, across people, across our seemingly endless presentations.
But I think that’s how weak cookies are.
