Sunday, August 23, 2026

Make of this as you want. A proposal from a person - a U.S. Senator - for years over which years we never got Medicare for All. Not even near to it. For reasons that can be explained to me. Having to do with money talks.

Klobuchar proposes Minnesota tax credit to assist with rising healthcare premiums

If the federal government fails to extend federal subsidies that offset healthcare premiums, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, as governor, would create a state tax credit to help with those skyrocketing costs.

Most Republican U.S. senators late last year blocked a Democratic bill to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially driving up healthcare premiums for millions of Americans.

The extra federal subsidies that Republicans blocked are known as “enhanced premium tax credits,” because they raised the income cutoffs at which people can receive subsidies.

 

They never called her the "Big Vision Lady." A brief Obama-era trifecta, executive, senate, house, and we got Romneycare-rebranded. Romneycare was a Heritage Society idea.

But I have no general election choice, do I?