The Republican plan for healthcare is that you’re not rich you should not be able to get healthcare

The Affordability Party thinks that healthcare is way too cheap:

The Senate rejected dueling health care bills Thursday, all but guaranteeing that Obamacare subsidies used by more than 20 million Americans will lapse at the end of the year.

Senators voted 51-48 on advancing a GOP health care plan that would have expanded health savings accounts as an alternative to the expiring tax credits. Democrats’ plan to extend the Covid-era enhanced subsidies for three years also received a 51-48 vote. Both proposals fell well short of the 60 votes needed to vault a key procedural hurdle.

The “health savings plan” is one of the mustiest Republican concepts of a concepts of a plan and it remains pure vaporware:

Instead of subsidizing premiums for those on Affordable Care Act plans, Republicans proposed introducing Health Savings Accounts, Association Health Plans, and Choice Accounts. 

Americans who don’t get insurance through their employer would be given cash directly into an account, which would reportedly be paired with a high-deductible health plan, meaning higher insurance premiums would be replaced by higher out-of-pocket costs. 

Currently, Obamacare enrollees never see the funds from their tax credits, which instead are sent directly to insurers. President Donald Trump has suggested that consumers would rather see the money themselves, what little of it there is. Republicans’ plan purports to take the burden of negotiating insurance rates away from health care providers and large companies and place it on individuals, so they can “feel like entrepreneurs,” according to Trump.

Replacing subsidies with “individual choice” will not make you feel like an entrepreneur, it will just mean you can’t afford healthcare but will waste more time finding out that out:

[image or embed]— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) Dec 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM