He's not really gonna get rid of the ACA right?

blame everything on mexicans

I'm sorry, it's all my fault and I take full responsibility. I'll make tamales with atole for the victims of my reckless Mexican behavior. 😔

trans muslim librarians are coming for your pizza

So what type of pizza do they like? Gotta get ready for January!

Non stop fillibusters for 4 years?

Is that our only hope?

The Affordable Care Act, the US public marketplace for private insurance. Ignorantly referred to by conservatives as socialism.

Affordable care act, also referred to as Obamacare. The name Obamacare was coined by republicans the actual name of the legislation was the affordable care act

What was said here is correct, but I wanted to add that almost all the things everyone hates about ACA was also mostly brought on by Republicans that wouldn't vote for it unless sections of it were modified. Democrats took what they could get and figured it could be revisited later to fix that at some point. Instead, the opposite happened, and it was handicapped even more by Republicans and here we are, where most people just believe democrats forced this awful plan upon us that is making everyone pay huge amounts of money.

Nah, don’t mock the remorseful it’ll dig them in. Mock the unrepentant

Tell them Trump didn't win, Putin did.

Since Trump is just a Russian asset that is selling US state secrets to Putin.

That's not entirely true. Everyone forgets there was an individual mandate penalty that his administration & congress repealed.

Anyone remember how the ACA assessed a tax on those who were not insured? (with income based exceptions). The tax was meant to feed into the ACA and keep plans in the marketplace cheaper, and to stop the program from adding to the federal deficit.

Once the trump administration came in they worked with Congress to eliminate that tax penalty.

Here is a helpful article that talks about the penalty and what the early findings showed when it was removed.

I think it's a good question. My take, and I dunno if it's right, is that they fucked up with Roe vs. Wade, and they know it --- they were the dog that caught the car, so to speak. But once you catch the car, what do you do with it? It's no longer something you can use to activate your base. They pivoted the messaging from "abortion bad" to "states rights," but I think that's less of a hot button issue.

So I'm really hoping it's the same with the ACA --- they want to talk about how Dems are socialists and socialism is bad, but they don't necessarily want to "catch the car" here. I do think that any changes will be explicitly about "Obamacare" and any replacement (even if it's exactly the same) will be pushed as "Trumpcare."

I'm probably way off though, and I wouldn't be surprised in the least if they indeed repeal the ACA. And as much as I feel like a horrible person saying it, I have pretty much zero sympathy for those about to get their face eaten by the leopards --- I voted D, and I'm not reliant on the ACA, so basically sorry, but go fuck yourself (not you personally, just the regretful Trump voters --- I am deeply sympathetic to others affected by this).

Gays and Jews will also be blamed

As a school bus driver, I work with a bunch of older people who are already utterly dependent on social security and medicare to have any semblance of a life that doesn't involve living in a tent in the park and dumpster diving for dinner. They are mostly trumpers. We're all Teamsters as well, and a few are married lesbians (and these are the most rabidly pro-trump of all). I have made a few attempts to convince them that trump (and Republicans for fucking decades) are out to destroy social security, medicare, unions and gay rights (among lots of other things) - but they reacted to me like I had grown an extra head. Somehow they've convinced themselves that the GOP is the original source and the protector of these things.

What do you do for the remaining 4-1/2 minutes?

JD Vance was made his running mate cause JD Vance is down with project 2025 and will be doing the actual running of things.

So it doesnt matter what Trump is off doing. JD Vance will be back at the office, doing the nasty work that trump will rubber stamp.

The ACA is a massive bill that affects basically every part of healthcare in the US. That being said, here are some of the major parts that affect people who get their coverage through their employer:

1. Minimum coverage standards - The ACA sets minimums about what must be covered by employer insurance, including drugs, procedures, family planning and mental health care.
2. No lifetime caps - Before the ACA insurers could set a lifetime cap on how much they would pay out for any individual. This meant that people who had long term chronic or very expensive medical needs would get kicked off their insurance eventually and have to figure something else out. Or, more likely, either go into massive medical debt or forego care, or both.
3. Pre-existing coverage - Before the ACA insurers could choose not cover issues that you got before you signed up with that insurer. So, again, if you had a chronic condition and changed jobs, you could lose all coverage for those treatments.

There is probably a lot more, but those are the big ones for most people.

You only need simple majority to pass most bills. You need 60 votes to bypass any filibuster attempts (this is called cloture).

There's also standing that "budget neutral bills over 10 years" need less red tape before being voted on.

I think they have what they need to repeal ACA, but not enough to shut down filibustering

You forget that we will have a president who ignores the rule of law.

He'll issue an executive order shutting down the exchange website, minimize the exchange workforce to 0, and require everyone to apply by mail.

Red states did just this with SNAP benefits and did exactly what they intended.