"Having Democrats pave the way for Obamacare’s repeal would be a perfect end to Obama’s miserable legacy."
"By shutting down the government for more than a month to protect Obamacare, Democrats may have opened the door to its repeal. That would be a fitting ending to the failure they birthed 15 years ago.
"The Democrats’ entire justification for keeping the government closed was to force an extension of (temporary) enhanced “Affordable Care Act” subsidies added during COVID-mania, which they now claim will create an affordability crisis if allowed to expire.
"The irony might have been lost on Democrats, but President Donald Trump saw an opportunity to target this public policy failure once again, suggesting lawmakers scrap Obamacare’s massive subsidy scheme – which directs billions of dollars to insurance companies – and give the money directly to people so that, as Trump put it on Truth Social, “THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE.”
"The fact that this debate is even happening is proof that Obamacare has massively failed to live up to its grand promises.
"After all, when Obama sold his health care reform plan to the public in 2009, he said that “It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. And it will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government.”
"He said that “reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan,” that “the middle class will realize greater security, not higher taxes,” and that it will “slow the growth of health care costs” and “reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the long term.”
"None of that turned out to be true. Health care costs didn’t slow. Premiums didn’t go down. Nearly 30 million adults still say health care is difficult to afford or access.
"Annual deficits have exploded since Obamacare became law. Medicare and Medicaid are still rife with waste, fraud, and abuse.
"And while the number of uninsured has gone down, that’s entirely the result of more people becoming dependent on the government for health care. In 2009, just 26% of Americans were on some form of government insurance. By 2023, that number topped 34%." . . . More...
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