Sep 23, 2026 · 47 min · 10 segments
The administration is determined to kick another million people off their Affordable Care Act health insurance, and at the same time they want to continue axing the research that might cure cancer or…
I find her amusing that it was originally intended to be an insult and it has now become attached to the Affordable Care Act, you know, and Obama's fine.
Well, and we should mention, we should stress the word affordable because that is the whole idea.
And the Republicans have, first of all, we've gone through over and over and I just have to say yet again, insurance should not be part of the health care system.
The Republicans in Congress, when it passed, went out of their way to try to gut every meaningful aspect of it.
And they succeeded in a lot of cases, but it still lowered the cost for tens of millions of Americans.
And ever since then, the Republicans have tried to, one way or another, get rid of it.
And this administration, just this week, announced they are kicking 750,000 more people off because of alleged fraud and looking at, quote, looking at... end quote, another $440,000 that they're going to kick off.
This is on top of $2 million that lost their coverage when the subsidies were allowed to expire because Republicans did not want to continue those COVID-era subsidies.
And actually, it was, ironically, a plan first instituted by Mitt Romney, the governor.
For all the people that say, oh, well, look at Canada, look at Medicare, it's single payer, and it works.
I find her amusing that it was originally intended to be an insult and it has now become attached to the Affordable Care Act, you know, and Obama's fine.
Well, and we should mention, we should stress the word affordable because that is the whole idea.
And the Republicans have, first of all, we've gone through over and over and I just have to say yet again, insurance should not be part of the health care system.
The Republicans in Congress, when it passed, went out of their way to try to gut every meaningful aspect of it.
And they succeeded in a lot of cases, but it still lowered the cost for tens of millions of Americans.
And ever since then, the Republicans have tried to, one way or another, get rid of it.
And this administration, just this week, announced they are kicking 750,000 more people off because of alleged fraud and looking at, quote, looking at... end quote, another $440,000 that they're going to kick off.
This is on top of $2 million that lost their coverage when the subsidies were allowed to expire because Republicans did not want to continue those COVID-era subsidies.
And actually, it was, ironically, a plan first instituted by Mitt Romney, the governor.
For all the people that say, oh, well, look at Canada, look at Medicare, it's single payer, and it works.
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