House Republicans to Brainstorm on Health Care

[babylonsister]

Yay.

https://politicalwire.com/2025/11/12/house-republicans-to-brainstorm-on-health-care/

House Republicans to Brainstorm on Health Care
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

“House committee chairs will begin having listening sessions next week with groups of Republican members on health care policy and the fate of expiring Obamacare subsidies,” Politico reports.

[kacekwl]

1. If republicans are brainstorming

they're going to fall short.

[Jack Valentino]

21. "tiny"

[IA8IT]

28. needed to be said

[RockRaven]

2. Oh. Where are they going to get the brain?

And don't say that Oz guy. He's a charlatan.

[pat_k]

3. Don't you need at least one entire brain in the group to brainstorm? (nt)

[sakabatou]

4. Repukes had 10+ years to come up with their own plan. They have nothing.

[leftieNanner]

5. 15!

The ACA passed in 2010.

But I'm sure they will have something ready to go in two weeks.

[Hugin]

7. It's going to be a two for one coupon where nobody can afford the first one. Vouchers for those who don't need them.

Yeah, and probably an unfunded health care savings account. So they can shrug and say that they have no responsibility and blame the victims for not having any money in it.

[sakabatou]

11. "Well, ain't this a chronological oddity! Two weeks from everything!"

[leftstreet]

6. The ACA is pretty much the Heritage Foundation plan

and also modeled on Romneycare. The only bitching GOPers did about the ACA was the subsidies

There's really nothing they can do here but go...left

[haele]

19. They did bitch about the initial requirements that went along with it -

That everyone needed to be on it or on a market or employer's plan that had similar coverage requirements it if they wanted the tax breaks and -
A minimum of health care services were required to be covered by the ACA or other health care plans that got the tax exemptions whether or not the covered person thought they needed it or not.
Remember the huge nit-picking stink about OB/GYN requirement on all the plans -
"I'm a Healthy 30 year old Man, I shouldn't have to pay extra for women's health care or Cancer screenings or Autoimmune Diseases or Geriatric Services until I'm Good and Ready to...if all I want is Catestrophic coverage, that's all I should need to get..."

Couldn't ever explain to them Health Care is not like going to a Starbucks, and why the pool had to be large enough to affordably cover everyone.
We're going to end up with the "affordable" crap they had from around 1987 to 2011, where tens of thousands of working class people a year went bankrupt or lost their homes from unexpected medical bills and - hundreds of thousands a year more went "another year putting off seeing a doctor" due to limits on annual visits and coverage until their health situation became so bad they either ended up in the ER or had to quit working due to disability - and then struggle for years in poverty trying to get on SSDI if they were too far away from retirement.
That's what the GOP now wants, because "Romney Care" is no longer needed for businesses to keep a relatively productive workforce in place; AI will cut that workforce need in half - or get rid of it altogether.
If you're not needed, you're fired - go get another job or starve.
They don't care.

[Jack Valentino]

22. OH--- 'no worries'--- Trump has "a concept of a plan"!

(A concept of a plan to prevent any improvements in American health insurance costs)

[NewHendoLib]

8. repubs don't brain "storm" - they do a brain barely-a-drizzle

[gab13by13]

9. I think they are going to meet with

the CEO's of Insurance companies who will do the brainstorming.

[wolfie001]

10. They added all the extra $ charges on the original Obamacare

Dumbass Rubio did some shenanigans that caused increased prices early during the rollout. These rePUKE fuckers will only make things worse. Protecting billionaires.

[karynnj]

15. Yep, he got rid of the catastrophic costs fund for insurance companies

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Without it, all companies need to set rates that include the possibility of insuring one or more of the very high cost people. This raises the cost for everyone and most of the time simply leads to higher profits.

When this policy of the federal government essentially covering catastrophic costs was added to the ACA bill it led to a BIG reduction in overall costs as modeled by the Congressional Budget Committee. Rubio's eliminating it raised premiums AND the cost to the government of ACA.

[wolfie001]

17. I forgot all the details. Thank you!

I've always known him (Rubio) to be a piece of trash and a phony.

[Disaffected]

12. Brainstorm or Brainfart??

I'm guessing the latter...

[thought crime]

13. When their brains hit the fan...

A shitstorm by any other name...

[markie]

14. It will not take long

Changing the name to GOPCare or TrumpCare won’t take long….
Obama is the only part of the ACA they don’t like…. If they’re honest… oh wait….

[RazorbackExpat]

16. No doubt their "brainstorm" will produce

a tsunami of shitty ideas

[yaesu]

18. He just signed his yuge Xmas gift that the 8+ traitors gave him, don't expect any promises to be kept, none! nt

[Jack Valentino]

20. WELL--- THAT'S a "contradiction in terms", isn't it???

'Republicans brainstorm'...

[Frasier Balzov]

23. Let me guess.

Just let the free market work its magic, right?

[Xolodno]

24. Think they will pull a Reagan.

Reagan wanted to just give a block grant to each state depending on population and let them decide how to go about it. One thing about the GOP in Congress, they rather punt on an issue than deal with it every few years.

[Rincewind]

25. Brainstorm?

They couldn't come up with a brain light mist.

[chouchou]

26. No much money. You/Family die.

[Lovie777]

27. It would not surprise me ...................

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shithole and the Republicans re-name Obamacare (ACA) to "thrumpcare", seriously.

[Clouds Passing]

29. The gqp already have healthcare figured out. Brainstorming is just a "vacation" for them.

https://healthlaw.org/authoritarian-project-2025-agenda-endangers-the-future-of-medicaid-and-the-affordable-care-act/

“The Project 2025 agenda would severely decrease access to and the quality of affordable private health insurance. It would expand “junk” health plans (short-term limited duration plans) that do not comply with the ACA’s protections (470). These plans may charge women and people with pre-existing conditions more for coverage and do not have to cover the ACA’s Essential Health Benefits, such as prescription drugs; pregnancy, maternity and newborn care; and preventive services, leaving many without the coverage they need. Project 2025 also seeks to separate unsubsidized and subsidized health plans into separate marketplaces, making it more difficult for people to compare various plans’ scope and quality (469).

Project 2025 directs the administration to reissue a 2019 Final Rule (473) that essentially made ACA’s modest protections for people to access abortion coverage meaningless, with devastating effects on health and economic futures. As part of its anti-science agenda, Project 2025 also conflates abortion and emergency contraception and proposes eliminating coverage of emergency contraception from the ACA’s contraceptive mandate (485). Further, the extremist playbook aims to undermine the ACA’s women’s preventive services mandate, which requires most health plans to cover recommended preventive services without cost-sharing, by narrowing coverage of evidence-based care and restoring ideologically driven and antiscience recommendations from the past (484–485).”