After the Republicans in the Senate blocked Democratic efforts to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, ensuring an increase of thousands of dollars a year for all of those who rely on Obamacare to stay alive, House GOP members have decided to do the MAGAts in the upper chamber one better by introducing a bill that accomplishes nothing and adds to costs.

According to CNN:

House Republicans unveiled a narrow health care package on Friday that does not extend soon-to-expire enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies — the latest sign that Congress is unlikely to avert skyrocketing insurance premiums for millions of Americans in the new year.

The GOP proposal would instead seek to expand the availability of association health plans, which allow employers to band together to purchase coverage, and fund a cost-sharing reduction program meant to lower premiums for certain Affordable Care Act enrollees. It would also impose new transparency requirements on pharmacy benefit managers in a bid to lower drug costs.

So, since this MAGAt farce is going to fail as well, what does that mean for Kentuckians who have coverage under Kynect (which is Obamacare for the idiots who don’t know any better)? AI tells us:

Health costs in Kentucky are set to increase significantly for 2026, with many on the Kynect marketplace facing premium hikes from 37% up to potentially hundreds or even thousands of dollars monthly, averaging around $181-$200 more for some families, largely due to the expiration of federal ACA tax credits, though exact figures vary widely by individual plan and income. 

The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy has an even more detailed explanation.

In 2025, more than 90,000 Kentuckians were enrolled in a health insurance plan through kynect, the state’s health insurance marketplace. Most of these enrollees received subsidies that significantly reduced the cost of their monthly premiums. Those premium subsidies, known as Advance Premium Tax Credits (APTCs), are now at the center of the budget debate in Congress. Their expiration at the end of the year would cause premiums to soar and lead to thousands of Kentuckians becoming uninsured.  

This lost support would harm Kentuckians in all 120 counties. For these households, premium costs are likely to double in many cases. A family of four with an income twice the poverty level would see their annual premiums rise from $2,102 to $5,361. A 60-year old couple with a household income of $85,000 would lose their insurance support entirely, and see their annual premium costs rise from $7,225 to $30,886. Many of these people are small business owners or work at a small business or as independent contractors. 

This is what MAGAt idiots voted for because they thought none of this would affect them. Some quick math here, but I’m guessing of those 90,000 on the ACA, 56,000 voted for the Republican disaster we have running this country, because they just knew “the bad stuff” would only happen to Brown people. (The Orange Menace got 64% of the Kentucky vote in the 2024 election.) Have they figured out yet that everything Republicans do is designed to screw them over so billionaires can have more money?

And how are the billionaires doing, in the meantime?

The top 10 centibillionaires in the United States as of yesterday have a combined net worth of well over $2.270 trillion.

It would be nice to know how many of their employees rely on the ACA since their billionaire bosses won’t provide health insurance. And how many of those employees live in Kentucky?

The map at the top shows there are plenty.