Ranking Member Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) of the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions will host a shadow hearing on Tuesday, December 2, to spotlight what he describes as Republican efforts to prioritize tax breaks for billionaires over affordable health care for working families. The event, titled “Republican Priorities: Billionaire Tax Breaks, Not Health Care for Working Families,” is aimed at emphasizing the importance of extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits.
The hearing will bring together health experts, small business owners, and individuals enrolled in the federal Marketplace to discuss the need to lower health care costs and ensure continued access to ACA subsidies. Participants include Justin Giovannelli of Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, Katie Berge of Blood Cancer United, and small business owners and Marketplace enrollees Tori Baggot and Kathleen Winters.
DeSaulnier will be joined by Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Together, they intend to highlight how the loss of enhanced ACA tax credits could drive up premiums for millions of Americans, including small business owners who rely on Marketplace plans.
The shadow hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, December 2, at 2:00 p.m. EST inside Room 2261 of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Sensationalizing the event title I see. Why is it called a shadow hearing, doesn’t sound like open democracy to me. Fight to extend the handouts but do nothing to make the system more efficient and structurally cheaper. Who had the idea to let states create their own marketplaces (e.g. Covered CA), should be one Federal one to keep administrative costs down which lowers costs, duh. But good job spending your time on that event title cause really it’s all about you staying in power and really nothing about “health care for working families”. Most of us can see right through it all, clowns.
This is considered a “shadow hearing” because official committee hearings are led by Republicans and they do not want to talk about extending the ACA credits or any plan that helps make healthcare affordable.
Why would anyone need ACA credits? It is free healthcare essentially on the backs of the middle class while I pay 3x the rates I should. Why should I have to pay the same rate as a family with 9 people in it? My family has 4 members does that make sense to you? I hope not!
The Republicans know that extending the ACA credits just keeps subsidies of $800 Billion per year going into all the insurance companies pockets and they have already said those credits were never meant to be made permanent.
Time is up!
Even Bernie Sanders said “The current system is “designed to make huge profits for the insurance companies and the drug companies, period.”
More lies and more Trump bashing. That’s all these democrats have. Mabey our health care cost would go down if the government would stop subsidizing their rate increases with taxpayer money. Who are the democrats really supporting?
Exactly, the ACA needs to be abolished. We had free medical it was called county and far superior to the ACA. If you want better insurance work for it or settle for county. The ACA has only gotten insurance companies wallets fatter and politicians like marky mark. My insurance has more than tripled since ACA went into affect, funny how they slide affordable into the title. Affordable for who!?! me not even close but I am supposed to care about some lazy able bodied person who cries and whines and feels entitled to everything!
If we abolish the ACA then we go back to the good old days where insurance companies can discriminate against people with preexisting conditions. So if you get cancer, lose your job and health insurance then it’s basically impossible to get coverage again. Cancer was always on the list of “decline able medical conditions.” This obviously killed a lot of people which is why pretty much everyone in the country supports the clause in the ACA making this practice illegal.
You act like we just rolled people out into the streets to die, we have never let people die before if they had pre existing conditions you had county and it was just fine!
That’s exactly what happened because most states didn’t (and still don’t) have state or county run healthcare. People in these situations had to use emergency rooms only. ACA repeal will kill between 20,000 and 50,000 people per year. This has been studied many times over the years.
The Affordable Care Act never lived up to what it was supposed to be. ” Obama Care” was supposed to save us all up to 2,000 a year and we were supposed to be able to keep our current medical doctor. None of that was true, it actually ended up costing us an extra 2000 a year! I don’t care if it fails or not.
I want it to fail it has cost me so much more for medical. My son and his wife had a huge bill for the birth of their baby that is complete BS. Those fees should be covered like they once were…
Shut up, Mark.
Why is it that whenever the Democrats talk about “affordable care,” their solution is always redistribution of wealth to pay for it rather than actually reducing the cost of that healthcare?
Because you nailed it “re-distribution of wealth” right into their and the insurance companies pockets!
The big corporations are the ones that bribe(political contributions) the corrupt politicians, not middle class taxpayers.
tax breaks for billionaires? that old saw? been talking to bernie (you know, the dirty commie hippie from Vermont, with the heavily influenced NY accent, who used to rally against millionaires too, until he became one)?
wonder if marky will address all the taxpayer money going to illegal aliens? not counting on it.
I assume this is a shadow hearing because any truths could not survive in the sunlight.
We are fortunate to be represented by Congressman DeSaulnier
Why? Can you give us an example?
He could be so much more effective in Minnesota.
Your sarcasm nailed it!
If it is affordable then why do they need subsidies to pay for it? “asking for a friend”
(obvious sarcasm)
Let me get this straight. Taxpayers give money to insurance companies in the belief that they will lower premiums for ACA policies. What Morons thought this up!
The Democrats never intended on the Affordable Care Act to really be affordable. That’s how they designed it. The subsidies were to make it appear to be affordable. And to prove how little the Democrats care for the American people, they intentionally designed the subsidies to be temporary.
If your healthcare costs are about to skyrocket, thank a Democrat, because that’s how they designed it.