Political Memes

The Democrats want to

1. Extend healthcare subsidies that were put into place during the pandemic. Allowing these to expire would raise everyone's monthly healthcare premium.

2. Challenge new restrictions introduced in the "big, beautiful bill" which seeks to exclude able bodied "working age" individuals from Medicaid benefits. 12 million low income individuals are on track to lose coverage.

Sidebar: John Oliver has covered this but.. the way this system works is you lose coverage by default and then have to submit paperwork monthly to prove you are working. Its been shown time and time again that state governments do not have the administrative capacity to handle that amount of documentation so even if you are eligible you will likely spend most of your time uninsured and in administrative limbo.

3. Challenge immigration enrollment restrictions that aim to prevent immigrants from accessing Medicaid benefits (everyone who works in the US [including immigrants] pay into Medicaid).

Republicans don't want to include those provisions in the budget. Instead they want to talk about them later. We all know what that means.