Republicans Are Panicked And Terrified About The Midterm Election And May Restore Obamacare Subsidies

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) knows that Democrats want Obamacare subsidies restored, and now Republicans are getting nervous that insurance premium increases will kill them in the midterm.

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Republicans had to know that this would happen. House and Senate Republicans voted for the tax cuts for the rich and health care cuts to pay for it, and they seemed to have believed that they could get away with cutting healthcare for nearly 20 million people, and nobody would notice.

It turns out that people noticed. Voters are angry, and now Republicans are running scared.

NBC News reported that Senate Republicans have opened the door to restoring the Obamacare subsidies that they cut:

NBC News asked Thune at his press conference whether he could support an extension of the ACA enhanced subsidies, either as part of a government funding package or a separate vehicle.

“Well, the Democrats created this problem by putting the deadline or the phase-outs in the legislation they acted on earlier, and by dramatically expanding the size of the program in the first place,” the majority le…