Americans shopping for 2026 Obamacare health insurance plans are facing a more than doubling of monthly premiums on average and are likely to postpone signing up in hopes of a last-minute reprieve, or walk away, health experts say.

COVID-19 pandemic-era subsidies, due to expire at year-end, are at the center of the month-long U.S. government shutdown, with the potential to affect election outcomes and increase the rate of U.S. uninsured.

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    Just to putting these in one place.

    • Republicans would rather shut down the government than allow affordable health care. (this article)
    • Trump is pushing to remove medical bills being exempt from credit reports, making it more difficult for people for people to qualify for credit cards, car loans, and home loans. (ref)
    • Following an executive order from Trump, Utah is building a forced labor Internment Camp for the homeless. (ref)
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      You’ve got the second one backwards. He wants to remove exemptions from credit reports.

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      See, if you do slavery via the prison industrial complex, you don’t have to deal with the pesky courts trying to block you. The rich need people to work for them, but the fucking poors are always asking for more and more because they are just so greedy and want to steal a handful of their pile of gold that the rich man worked so hard to earn.

      I’d love to see a single mother of 3 wake up at the crack of dawn to get hard at work sitting in a corner office making two phone calls and collecting thousands of dollars an hour. It’s very hard and valuable work, and the poor need to be more appreciative that they haven’t been legally trapped into slavery sooner.

      /s if that wasn’t abundantly obvious