There will be no vote on ACA subsidies

[EdmondDantes_]

44. Please explain how this kills the ACA

The expanded subsidies weren't part of the original ACA and have nothing to do with the rules on coverage requirements or minimum of premium spending on medical care. I think you're conflating two different things.

Fewer people will be covered, but we made a choice with the Inflation Reduction Act to extend for 3 years instead of longer. Yes that's what they worked out with Manchin, but it would have been easier to not include some other parts of the Green New Deal to make the reconciliation math work.

What you're proposing is effectively while in the minority in both houses of Congress and not having the presidency what we didn't/couldn't do when we had all three. It's not a fair argument that you're making to blame the group that made the deal while not looking at what we could have done to avoid the situation, and even more so by not including what was staved off by reopening the government.

And while the ACA is good, it's a bandaid on the problem of health care being expensive. It doesn't do much to address costs due to much higher usage which is why the subsidies are needed in the first place.