[pxmpxm]

It's always cost ~$2k a month, the only difference is the previous administration thought everyone else should be "temporarily" paying for her plan.

I feel like we need a perpetual PSA here that moving money from person A to person B obviously doesn't make anything cheaper.

[JumpCrisscross]

> the previous administration thought everyone should be "temporarily" paying for her plan. Moving money from person A to person B obviously doesn't make anything cheaper

No, but it means I can't pay for a first-class ticket while someone else survives. I'll take that deal.

[nradov]

I support subsidies to help low-income citizens who legitimately can't afford health insurance, but some of the temporary ACA subsidies passed in 2021 were ridiculous. They were handing out cash to early retirees as young as age 55 with incomes over 400% of the poverty line.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/aca-enhanced-subsidy-lapse-g...

I don't want my tax dollars wasted on subsidizing them. Give the money to someone who actually needs it.

(Of course the real problem is healthcare costs accelerating out of control. Insurance subsidies won't fix that problem. In fact they make it worse by encouraging healthcare providers and drug companies to raise prices even faster.)

[harmmonica]

It doesn't add to the discussion, but an anonymous upvote wouldn't convey my appreciation for how apropos this comment is.

[dogemaster2028]

Why is buying first class tickets bad?

[silisili]

As a supporter of single payer(or really, anything else), I support this move. When half the nation is on subsidized healthcare they aren't so likely to care about costs.

Now, you have a lot more angry people, and hopefully that leads to real reform, because what we have now is unsustainable, even to upper middle class families.

[almosthere]

when the gov foots the bill, there's no reason to have competition.

[ChicagoDave]

Before 1985, there was no for-profit healthcare. Worked pretty good.

[marcus_holmes]

The govt also acts as a monopsony and forces lower prices. Same effect [0] different mechanism.

[0] actually a better effect - the govt actually does force lower prices, whereas competition is subject to all sorts of other effects where it doesn't actually function to lower prices.

[fzeroracer]

No, it definitely did not always cost $2k a month.

[pxmpxm]

Bronze plans with $5-6k deductibles have always ran more than what people paid for rent. Healthcare is the one thing that's outpaced inflation in higher education.