Trump's Obamacare subsidy cut may create free insurance

[jimmyz]

You don't know the difference between medicare and Medicaid?

Go deal with that. Come back and participate when you are up to speed.

I stand corrected. I meant Medicaid. thank you.

[AZ Jim]

Lol

[Bethere]

I stand corrected. I meant Medicaid. thank you.

That doesn't exactly build my confidence in your grasp of the subject material. There were only two answers. You got it wrong, so it had to be the other one.

That is Resister level performance. We see that stuff all of the time here at tPF. It clutters the forum with bs.

[Ethereal]

So the "story" here is that Trump ended subsidies to insurance companies which might result in people using more tax credits to help pay for their premiums?

Wow, what a hot scoop! Take that, Trump!

[Ethereal]

The haves always think the have nots are lazy.

Some of them are. And Democrat policies tend to reward these lazy parasites. That's probably why cities run by Democrats are so full of poverty, debt, and corruption.

[Captain Obvious]

I stand corrected. I meant Medicaid. thank you.

It's a common mistake consider the titles of each program are so similar, it happens everywhere.

[Kacper]

And because the subsidy is expressed as a tax credit it is entirely possible that some people could get free insurance AND some walking around money, too.

Seems improbable that a lot of people would pay the full premium out of pocket and then get the tax credit instead of the premium subsidy.

[Bethere]

Seems improbable that a lot of people would pay the full premium out of pocket and then get the tax credit instead of the premium subsidy.

The tax credits are upfront, by law. The consumers never did get the subsidy which is a different thing. That goes directly to the insurers to lower copays and deductibles, etc.

[Kacper]

The tax credits are upfront, by law. The consumers never did get the subsidy which is a different thing. That goes directly to the insurers to lower copays and deductibles, etc.

Not really how I understand the tax credit to work in this context. The tax credit could be applied to your premium as you go as an advance in which case the government paid the insurer or you could have paid your whole premium and then used your credit as a refund amount in April. I recall them advising people who were unsure that it was better to pay their insurance out of pocket and then take the credit at tax times as opposed to having advanced credit given they may not have been eligible for and then have to pay all that money back to Uncle Sam in April.

[resister]

That doesn't exactly build my confidence in your grasp of the subject material. There were only two answers. You got it wrong, so it had to be the other one.

That is Resister level performance. We see that stuff all of the time here at tPF. It clutters the forum with bs.

I am pleased that I take up so much rent, in that, tiny little head of yours! lol