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Miles Archer

(24,351 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:24 PM Aug 2025

Sarah Huckleberry Sanders has a BIG SAD over Arkansas healthcare costs. If ONLY we had a CLUE as to WHY! It's a MYSTERY!

Most Americans who buy a marketplace plan get financial help from the federal government through tax subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, the 2010 health reform legislation often called “Obamacare.” But those ACA subsidies are set to shrink next year, and congressional Republicans refuse to extend them.

Some 166,000 Arkansans get their insurance on the marketplace as of now. Most of them will face a major rate hike — or simply be priced out of coverage — if the changes take effect.

Last week, Gov. Sarah Sanders said the companies’ proposed rate hikes are “unacceptable” and called on the commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department to reject them.

It’s tough talk, but talk is cheap. Health care is not. As governor, Sanders aims to cut health spending at the state level and supports Republican cuts at the federal level. If she truly cared about preventing rate increases for Arkansans, she’d call on Congress to keep the current ACA subsidies in place, or she’d find money elsewhere. Instead, she’s trying to distract us with fake populism by attacking a corporate villain everyone loves to hate — insurance companies.

https://www.rawstory.com/unacceptable-sarah-huckabee-sanders-whines-about-cost-increases-fueled-by-own-party/

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Sarah Huckleberry Sanders has a BIG SAD over Arkansas healthcare costs. If ONLY we had a CLUE as to WHY! It's a MYSTERY! (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2025 OP
New member of the Leopards Eating My Face Party LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 #1
Typical GQP gaslighting to distract from the fact that it's THEIR policies and choices that are f****** everyone over AZJonnie Aug 2025 #2

AZJonnie

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2. Typical GQP gaslighting to distract from the fact that it's THEIR policies and choices that are f****** everyone over
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 01:31 PM
Aug 2025

She's trying to get out in front of the fallout DIRECTLY caused BY TRUMP AND REPUBLICAN POLICIES by preemptively blaming the insurance companies.

This is the exact same bullshit they pull every time. Nothing negative is EVER caused by US, heaven's no, look over there, it's THOSE people's fault!

Party of personal responsibility my ASS

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