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Ms. Toad

(38,824 posts)
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 11:40 PM Oct 2025

It's not about anger. It's about ensuring reasonably priced access to health care.

AFTER the last continuing resolution was passed - Republicans passed a second bill withdrawing funding which was already committed to Medicaid.

Why on earth, after that stunt, should Democrats trust Republicans to negotiate restoring the funding which they cut in a separate bill - AFTER - the last threatened shutdown?

Standing firm now is the only substantial possibility to get Medicaid and the subsidies for the affordable care act funded. If Democrats cave now, there is zero chance of funding health care at the levels which existed before the monstrosity the Republicans like to call the "Big Beautiful Bill."

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