by Evan Schroedel, Florence
The federal government shut down now because the Democrats will not allow the GOP to push through a budget bill without addressing the ACA subsidies’ expiring. Without those subsidies people’s health insurance premiums will double. This would affect thousands of Montanans and rural hospitals.
SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) funding runs out November 1st, even though there are safeguards against this in a fund that the administration is not allowing to be used in order to create a false pressure on the Democrats.
Tuesday I saw Legislative Representative Flowers state that Montana had funds available that could be used as a stopgap to pay for Montanans who are on SNAP. The same day, Gianforte was interviewed and said that SNAP was a federal program and if we used Montana funds we might not get paid back. I guess he’s being financially responsible even though he was so proud of his huge cut in income taxes for him and his rich friends that is going to put Montana Into deficit spending. He wants to be responsible!?
SNAP and WIC go out to 78,000 Montanans. That’s close to 10% of our population who could likely go without eating.
Timothy Adams says
For what it’s worth literally anyone can walk into most food banks locally and get food without any application or income requirements. If people are starving it’s not by choice. And that doesn’t include programs like Meals on Wheels.
Roger H Mitchell says
At last! A voice of reason in the midst of a cacophony of shrill hysteria and panic! Thank you, Timothy, I like the way you think.
Bill Cavanaugh says
For those who don’t know….. Tracy is funny.
Evan, do you know that the ACA subsidies were supposed to expire, and the ACA was supposed to be able to stand on its own by now? Do you know the subsidies being wiped out were added on as additional subsidies due to Covid. last I checked Covid is no longer the problem…. Democrat corruption over those subsidies is. And if you think Premiums are increasing because of the lack of subsidies, and not the rampant corruption that is the Affordable Care Act, you need to look at insurance premium increases since that bloated abomination was snuck in by Pelosi under cover of darkness.
Evan says
And your answer would be to eliminate the subsidies let health insurance in some cases triple so families in Montana and across this whole country would lose their health insurance again
evan says
my article was just stating some facts, the ACA was supposed to be financially neutral but due to tax changes and the mandate change all done by trump it isn’t now. we could fix all this by going to nation health care
Tracy says
This didnt age well.