Stewart: Dems ‘Shut Down the Government’ to Protect Subsidies for Marketplace That Makes Insurance C

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Stewart: Dems ‘Shut Down the Government’ to Protect Subsidies for Marketplace That Makes Insurance Companies Rich

Ian Hanchett 21 Oct 2025

On Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” on Monday, host Jon Stewart stated that Democrats are in a position where “we’ve shut down the government to protect subsidies for an insurance marketplace that funnels $800 billion a year into the pockets of all these insurance companies.”

Stewart asked, “[W]hat Democrats find themselves in a place is, we’ve shut down the government to protect subsidies for an insurance marketplace that funnels $800 billion a year into the pockets of all these insurance companies. Have Democrats boxed themselves into a corner fighting for a system that, ultimately, to get to the thing you want, that I think the American people want, they’re going to have to abandon?”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded, “Yes.” And stated that there will be dire consequences to ending the subsidies, the healthcare system is the right one to defend for today, and the right move long-term is to move to single-payer because the current system is “designed to make huge profits for the insurance companies and the drug companies, period.”

After the discussion turned to college education, Stewart said, “[T]his gets to the Democratic solutions have never been to directly provide, it’s always been a subsidy to a middleman. But, what happens is, when the government promises endless funds to insurance companies or private universities, without any cost controls — and Trump seems to understand this — prices rise far beyond the rate of inflation. And we’ve seen it in tuition and we’ve seen it in pharmaceutical and we’ve seen it health care. So, my question is, will Democrats recognize the poison pill that they’ve often placed into well-intentioned policy?”

Sanders responded, “Right. What they end up doing is coming up with very complicated proposals. You make $48,964, you will get this thing, you make a dollar more, you’re finished.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/21/stewart-dems-shut-down-the-government-to-protect-subsidies-for-marketplace-that-makes-insurance-companies-rich/

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CNN’s Tapper: Dems Created Expiration Date for Obamacare Subsidies, Not GOP

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” host Jake Tapper pushed back on Rep. Jamie Raskin’s (D-MD) claim that the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies that are at issue in the government shutdown is a Republican policy by noting that the expiration date for the Obamacare subsidies is something Democrats put in place, not the Republicans.

While discussing the expiration of the Affordable Care Act subsidies and the politics of the issue, Raskin said, “I have not heard any Democrats, none have said to me, oh, let’s just allow this terrible Republican policy to go forward so we can beat them on it next year.”

Tapper then said, “Congressman, you called it a terrible Republican policy. Democrats are the ones that put in this end date into these COVID-era Obamacare premium extensions, not Republicans. But, be that as it may, do you have the votes? If Speaker Johnson (R-LA) were to say, okay, fine, we’re going to have a vote on this tomorrow, have you and your Democratic colleagues lobbied five to ten Republicans in the House to support you so that if this were to come up for a vote, it would pass?”


https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/21/cnns-tapper-dems-created-expiration-date-for-obamacare-subsidies-not-gop/

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Dinks.

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The Dems are expects as spending other peoples money.