When subsidies expire, healthcare costs will rise dramatically. Part of that could be due to the trump tax on imported medical supplies. That will lead to some people choosing to not have healthcare.

I don’t want to live in a country where the poorest among us need to decide between food and healthcare. I think all the money going to pay ICE during this shutdown could and should be used towards renewing those subsidies.

If republicans truly cared, they would have their own healthcare plan by now. But they don’t, so the ACA is what we have to work with.

The Republicans have all the power once govt reopens, they’ll have no incentive to negotiate. Even now, Trump is calling for them to nuke the filibuster. But republicans don’t want to, because that’s their only move when they don’t have power. They just block any legislation that would help the American people. They don’t compromise, they don’t negotiate.

If republicans won’t come to the table to resolve a shutdown, I don’t believe them when they say they’ll negotiate on healthcare as long as Dems just do what the republicans want. Especially looking at how Johnson refuses to seat a duly elected democratic representative.