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Why some Americans haven't received their Social Security Fairness Act checks – MARCA
Why some Americans haven’t received their Social Security Fairness Act checks MARCASocial Security Fairnes…
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Why some Americans haven't received their Social Security Fairness Act checks – MARCA
Why some Americans haven’t received their Social Security Fairness Act checks MARCASocial Security Fairnes…
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Social Security: This Will Be the Average Payment in Every State in 2025 – MARCA
Social Security: This Will Be the Average Payment in Every State in 2025 …
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Social Security: This Will Be the Average Payment in Every State in 2025 – MARCA
Social Security: This Will Be the Average Payment in Every State in 2025 MAR…
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Social Security warns Americans to watch for 2 key forms arriving December 26 – MARCA
Social Security warns Americans to watch for 2 key forms arriving December 26 MARCAEd Slott: What You Need to…
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Social Security warns Americans to watch for 2 key forms arriving December 26 – MARCA
Social Security warns Americans to watch for 2 key forms arriving December 26 MARCAEd Slott: What You Need to…
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Who receives Social Security payment on December 10, 2025? Beneficiaries of the second Wednesday of the month – MARCA
Who receives Social Security payment on December 10, 2025? Beneficiaries of the …
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How much is the average Social Security check for California retirees in 2025? – MARCA
How much is the average Social Security check for California retirees in 2025? MARCASocial Security exper…
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How much is the average Social Security check for California retirees in 2025? – MARCA
How much is the average Social Security check for California retirees in 2025? MARCASocial Security exper…
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Who receives Social Security payment on December 10, 2025? Beneficiaries of the second Wednesday of the month – MARCA
Who receives Social Security payment on December 10, 2025?…
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Who receives Social Security payment on December 10, 2025? Beneficiaries of the second Wednesday of the month – MARCA
Who receives Social Security payment on December 10, 2025?…
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How much do Social Security beneficiaries get paid on Wednesday, December 10, 2025? Maximum and average deposit – MARCA
How much do Social Security beneficiaries get paid on Wednesday, December 10, 2025? Maximum and avera…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/333839/ -
How much do Social Security beneficiaries get paid on Wednesday, December 10, 2025? Maximum and average deposit – MARCA
How much do Social Security beneficiaries get paid on Wednesday, December 10, 2025? Maximum and avera…
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Social Security could provide new numbers for some Americans under a new bill – MARCA
Social Security could provide new numbers for some Americans under a new bill MARCA2 bills introduced by Congressman Lloyd…
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Social Security could provide new numbers for some Americans under a new bill – MARCA
Social Security could provide new numbers for some Americans under a new bill MARCA2 bills introduced by Congressman Lloyd…
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What age can you retire with full Social Security benefits under the new change? – MARCA
What age can you retire with full Social Security benefits under the new change? MARCAWith upcoming change, here’s the…
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What age can you retire with full Social Security benefits under the new change? – MARCA
What age can you retire with full Social Security benefits under the new change? MARCAWith upcoming change, here’s the…
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When will Social Security benefits be paid in December 2025? SSI and SSDI deposit schedule – MARCA
When will Social Security benefits be paid in December 2025? SSI and SSDI deposit schedule MARCADecember’…
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When will Social Security benefits be paid in December 2025? SSI and SSDI deposit schedule – MARCA
When will Social Security benefits be paid in December 2025? SSI and SSDI deposit schedule MARCADecember’…
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Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect
Credit: J. Scott Applewhite / AP PhotoRepublicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement
The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.
by Ryan Cooper, November 18, 2025
Republicans, for once, are sounding downright squeamish about onrushing massive cuts to Obamacare subsidies, with premiums on the exchanges expected to more than double on average starting next year. GOP House committee chairs are reportedly having some “brainstorming sessions” about what to do, and House Speaker Mike Johnson claims that they will “be rolling out some of those ideas” at some point.
So far, the genius idea in the lead is Trump’s pitch to reroute subsidies from health insurance companies to the American people, so they can buy health care. (House Republicans have already filed a bill that looks like this.) When asked whether people wouldn’t then just use that money to buy health insurance, Trump replied, “Ahh … some may. I mean, they’ll be negotiating prices.” Congratulations, folks, you now get to be your own private dealmaker with the health care system, and with your purchasing power and risk pool of one household, I’m sure you’ll get the best price!
The stupidity is the point. For decades now, the Republican Party has been dedicated to the proposition that rich people are too highly taxed and the working and middle classes get too many benefits from the government. With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, they have finally caught the car. Medicaid and Obamacare have been slashed to free up budget headroom for tax cuts heavily slanted to the wealthy. Republicans don’t have a “health care plan” per se because this is their plan: to take your health care funding and give it to Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the rest of the fascist billionaire class.
American conservatism is a strange political beast. Like all conservatisms across the world, it stands in defense of hierarchy and privilege, but it is welded clumsily to 19th-century orthodox capitalism. By this view, all income should come from working or owning property, and all goods and services should be obtained through the market. It would be unjust for anyone to receive a welfare benefit from the government, because they did not work to earn it. This is a philosophical problem for conservatism, as George Scialabba writes, because capitalism regularly and wildly disrupts the established social order as technologies and businesses evolve. (For the record, this view is also very stupid.)
But it’s a much more practical problem for a Republican trying to write a health care policy. Health insurance is straightforwardly impossible to square with capitalist morality for reasons a child can understand. Most obviously, people routinely get very sick or injured through no fault of their own, and require care that is far more expensive than they can afford out of pocket. Sometimes people have chronic conditions that cost many multiples of what they could ever possibly earn. Therefore, unlike the market for car or home insurance, where each person is charged exactly what they are statistically expected to claim (plus a margin of profit), any functioning health insurance scheme must have systematic transfers from the young and healthy to the elderly and sick.
With a pure market approach, only the very rich will be able to get all the health care they need. Even people making well into six figures will not be able to afford elaborate surgery or cutting-edge therapies out of pocket. The poor—or really anyone living paycheck to paycheck—will not get health care at all. Before Obamacare, that was the reality for many, with the only “insurance” available on the market being de facto worthless if you ever actually needed it.
This is what led early socialists and social democrats to advocate for national health insurance, run by the government. If the market is a fundamentally stupid way to pay for medical treatment, then throw everyone onto the same program, and fund it out of taxes. That way, the risk pool and the funding base will be as large as possible, people will be charged based on their ability to pay, and all citizens will be permanently insured. And historically, the fact that both the elderly and the poor were largely uninsured up through the early 1960s was a major motivation for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid.
Republicans have hated Medicare and Medicaid since the moment they were proposed, because they’re welfare programs. Ronald Reagan got his start in politics with an unhinged mini-documentary claiming Medicare would lead to a totalitarian dictatorship. Historically, Medicare has been too politically secure to touch—at least for now—but Republicans finally took a trillion-dollar bite out of Medicaid in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Editor’s Note: Featured top image by WP AI.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect
#aca #gop #healthCare #healthSubsidies #houseSpeaker #medicaid #medicare #mikeJohnson #noHealthCareReplacement #obamacare #republicans #ryanCooper #theAmericanProspect #welfarePrograms
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Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect
Credit: J. Scott Applewhite / AP PhotoRepublicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement
The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.
by Ryan Cooper, November 18, 2025
Republicans, for once, are sounding downright squeamish about onrushing massive cuts to Obamacare subsidies, with premiums on the exchanges expected to more than double on average starting next year. GOP House committee chairs are reportedly having some “brainstorming sessions” about what to do, and House Speaker Mike Johnson claims that they will “be rolling out some of those ideas” at some point.
So far, the genius idea in the lead is Trump’s pitch to reroute subsidies from health insurance companies to the American people, so they can buy health care. (House Republicans have already filed a bill that looks like this.) When asked whether people wouldn’t then just use that money to buy health insurance, Trump replied, “Ahh … some may. I mean, they’ll be negotiating prices.” Congratulations, folks, you now get to be your own private dealmaker with the health care system, and with your purchasing power and risk pool of one household, I’m sure you’ll get the best price!
The stupidity is the point. For decades now, the Republican Party has been dedicated to the proposition that rich people are too highly taxed and the working and middle classes get too many benefits from the government. With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, they have finally caught the car. Medicaid and Obamacare have been slashed to free up budget headroom for tax cuts heavily slanted to the wealthy. Republicans don’t have a “health care plan” per se because this is their plan: to take your health care funding and give it to Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the rest of the fascist billionaire class.
American conservatism is a strange political beast. Like all conservatisms across the world, it stands in defense of hierarchy and privilege, but it is welded clumsily to 19th-century orthodox capitalism. By this view, all income should come from working or owning property, and all goods and services should be obtained through the market. It would be unjust for anyone to receive a welfare benefit from the government, because they did not work to earn it. This is a philosophical problem for conservatism, as George Scialabba writes, because capitalism regularly and wildly disrupts the established social order as technologies and businesses evolve. (For the record, this view is also very stupid.)
But it’s a much more practical problem for a Republican trying to write a health care policy. Health insurance is straightforwardly impossible to square with capitalist morality for reasons a child can understand. Most obviously, people routinely get very sick or injured through no fault of their own, and require care that is far more expensive than they can afford out of pocket. Sometimes people have chronic conditions that cost many multiples of what they could ever possibly earn. Therefore, unlike the market for car or home insurance, where each person is charged exactly what they are statistically expected to claim (plus a margin of profit), any functioning health insurance scheme must have systematic transfers from the young and healthy to the elderly and sick.
With a pure market approach, only the very rich will be able to get all the health care they need. Even people making well into six figures will not be able to afford elaborate surgery or cutting-edge therapies out of pocket. The poor—or really anyone living paycheck to paycheck—will not get health care at all. Before Obamacare, that was the reality for many, with the only “insurance” available on the market being de facto worthless if you ever actually needed it.
This is what led early socialists and social democrats to advocate for national health insurance, run by the government. If the market is a fundamentally stupid way to pay for medical treatment, then throw everyone onto the same program, and fund it out of taxes. That way, the risk pool and the funding base will be as large as possible, people will be charged based on their ability to pay, and all citizens will be permanently insured. And historically, the fact that both the elderly and the poor were largely uninsured up through the early 1960s was a major motivation for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid.
Republicans have hated Medicare and Medicaid since the moment they were proposed, because they’re welfare programs. Ronald Reagan got his start in politics with an unhinged mini-documentary claiming Medicare would lead to a totalitarian dictatorship. Historically, Medicare has been too politically secure to touch—at least for now—but Republicans finally took a trillion-dollar bite out of Medicaid in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Editor’s Note: Featured top image by WP AI.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect
#aca #gop #healthCare #healthSubsidies #houseSpeaker #medicaid #medicare #mikeJohnson #noHealthCareReplacement #obamacare #republicans #ryanCooper #theAmericanProspect #welfarePrograms
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Who receives their Social Security payment on Wednesday, November 26, 2025? – MARCA
Who receives their Social Security payment on Wednesday, November 26, 2025? MARCASocial Sec…
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Who receives their Social Security payment on Wednesday, November 26, 2025? – MARCA
Who receives their Social Security payment on Wednesday, November 26, 2025? MARCASocial Sec…
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How much is the Social Security payment on Wednesday, November 19, 2025? Average and maximum deposits by age – MARCA
How much is the Social Security payment on Wednesday, November 19, 2025? Average and maximum dep…
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How much is the Social Security payment on Wednesday, November 19, 2025? Average and maximum deposits by age – MARCA
How much is the Social Security payment on Wednesday, November 19, 2025? Average and maximum dep…
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What day is the October 2025 SSI check deposited? Payment schedule for the month – MARCA
What day is the October 2025 SSI check deposited? Payment schedule for the month MARCASome retirees may receive up…
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Social Security COLA 2026: When is it confirmed and how much will payments grow? – MARCA
Social Security COLA 2026: When is it confirmed and how much will payments grow? MARCARetirees Fear Social Security’s…
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Social Security COLA 2026: When is it confirmed and how much will payments grow? – MARCA
Social Security COLA 2026: When is it confirmed and how much will payments grow? MARCARetirees Fear Social Security’s…
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Social Security 'bonus' payment of $967 arrives this Friday, August 29, 2025: Are you on the list? – MARCA
Social Security ‘bonus’ payment of $967 arrives this Friday, August 29, 2025: Are you on the list? MARCALast round…
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Social Security 'bonus' payment of $967 arrives this Friday, August 29, 2025: Are you on the list? – MARCA
Social Security ‘bonus’ payment of $967 arrives this Friday, August 29, 2025: Are you on the list? MARCALast round…
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# Why is it so hard to escape poverty? - Ann-Helén Bay
Explore the paradox of welfare programs, and learn how they inadvertently reinforce generational poverty, and what we can do to fix them.
> Imagine that you’ve been unemployed for months. Government benefit programs have helped you cover your expenses, but you’re barely getting by. Finally, you receive a paycheck— but there’s a catch. Your new job pays enough to disqualify you from benefit programs, but not enough to cover your costs. So how do we design benefit programs that don’t penalize you for working? Ann-Helén Bay investigates.
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Why is it so hard to escape poverty? - Ann-Helén Bay
Explore the paradox of welfare programs, and learn how they inadvertently reinforce generational poverty, and what we can do to fix them.
Imagine that you’ve been unemployed for months. Government benefit programs have helped you cover your expenses, but you’re barely getting by. Finally, you receive a paycheck— but there’s a catch. Your new job pays enough to disqualify you from benefit programs, but not enough to cover your costs. So how do we design benefit programs that don’t penalize you for working? Ann-Helén Bay investigates.
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Why is it so hard to escape poverty? - Ann-Helén Bay
Explore the paradox of welfare programs, and learn how they inadvertently reinforce generational poverty, and what we can do to fix them.
Imagine that you’ve been unemployed for months. Government benefit programs have helped you cover your expenses, but you’re barely getting by. Finally, you receive a paycheck— but there’s a catch. Your new job pays enough to disqualify you from benefit programs, but not enough to cover your costs. So how do we design benefit programs that don’t penalize you for working? Ann-Helén Bay investigates.
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Why is it so hard to escape poverty? - Ann-Helén Bay
Explore the paradox of welfare programs, and learn how they inadvertently reinforce generational poverty, and what we can do to fix them.
Imagine that you’ve been unemployed for months. Government benefit programs have helped you cover your expenses, but you’re barely getting by. Finally, you receive a paycheck— but there’s a catch. Your new job pays enough to disqualify you from benefit programs, but not enough to cover your costs. So how do we design benefit programs that don’t penalize you for working? Ann-Helén Bay investigates.