You need to stay on point as yes 'popularity' is exactly the point for a program utilizing citizen taxpayer money and how those citizens want that money used. ObamaCare is not unaffordable if the government prioritizes it over wasteful spending in other areas such as the military.
Popularity is a shit measure to be using for the primary reason for any program to exist.
What, other than is what citizens WANT (popularity) should be the priority for their own tax dollars.
Stuff the nation
needs to have and do, stuff that's effective economically, etc. Popularity is a piss poor reason for something to exist on it's own. Mob rule never works and that's what you are advocating for when it comes right down to it.
Oh and take your propaganda elsewhere as Red States rely on Obamacare more while Blue States provide most of the money paying for it and subsidizing Red States.
That's bullshit. Pull out the federal money for programs that aren't people based and the blue states overwhelm the red ones. You are using a common method of camouflaging things by the Left. For example, the Left claims "Immigrants cause less crime." They conflate legal and illegal immigration to water down the FACT that illegal immigrants go to prison at roughly three times their numbers in the population and commit far more crime, particularly violent crime, as but one example.
By including stuff that is geographic or otherwise not attached to the population that the federal government spends on and using that as the basis for each state's federal funding, the Left gets to camouflage the massive costs of the social welfare state in blue states. For example, in Florida Cape Canaveral exists with NASA and the space program. That is geographic and the money spent by the feds in Florida on that program are not population related but geographic. Yet, that spending is rolled into the amount Florida gets by the Left.
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Ai Summary:
Red states rely on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) marketplace plans and associated subsidies the most.
Key factors contributing to this trend include:
- Higher Enrollment Rates: Red states have seen a significantly larger increase in ACA marketplace enrollment in recent years. Since 2020, enrollment has grown by an average of 157% in states carried by President Trump, compared to only 36% in states carried by former Vice President Kamala Harris.
- Increased Use of Subsidies: Residents in red states utilize premium tax credits almost twice as frequently as those in blue states. The average monthly benefit from these tax credits is also higher in red states (around $580 per month).
- Medicaid Expansion Decisions: Many red states initially opted not to expand Medicaid under the ACA, which resulted in more of their low-to-middle-income populations using the federal marketplace and relying heavily on its subsidies to afford coverage.
- Affected Population: A majority of the people using the ACA live in Republican congressional districts, meaning that potential cuts or the expiration of enhanced subsidies would disproportionately affect residents in these areas. The top states with the highest enrollment increases are largely red states like Texas, Mississippi, West Virginia, and Georgia.
Artificial idiocy is meaningless.
For example it claims the majority of people using the ACA live in Republican congressional districts. How does this break down to people paying for an Obamacare plan in the marketplace and those getting expanded Medicaid for "free" from the federal government?
