Comment by xtiansimon
2 months ago
Don’t forget the repeal of the ACA healthcare mandate: “The federal individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, which required people to pay a tax penalty if they did not have health insurance, was repealed in 2019.”
Aka Republicans being pissy about the ACA (despite having come up with no feasible alternative plan at the time and unanimously voting against it even after it incorporated Republican characteristics) and choosing to try to intentionally financially torpedo it so they could campaign on its failure.
I'm pretty centrist, but the sheer evil of fucking over a country's access to health services for political points is appalling.
Especially since, you know, coming up with an alternative plan was eminently doable -- just not a priority for Republican leadership (then or "we have an idea of a plan" now).