Posted on 12/16/2025 5:30:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
While members of the U.S. Senate continue to battle over whether to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies just days before they expire, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is sharing some harsh truths.
Johnson, in a post on X, recalled how Democrats sold the ACA to the American people as a form of relief that would lower their health care premium costs but instead has raised those premium costs 3 times faster than the the rate of inflation.
The Speaker shared a chart showing how, since 2014, premium costs on the ACA exchange have risen twice as fast as the average employer-based individual plan premium.
Johnson wrote, “It is without question that the Unaffordable Care Act has failed the American people” and stated that Republicans are working to fix the Democrat’s mess.
Earlier this month, a report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) exposed waste, fraud and abuse throughout the ACA marketplace, including the wasting of tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money and causing consumer harm.
The GAO report uncovered what it calls, “large-scale systemic failures that allow fake identities, dead people, and massive improper use of Social Security numbers to receive Obamacare subsidies.”
As part of of its investigation, the GAO conducted covert operations by creating fictitious identities using fake or never-issued Social Security numbers that flooded insurers with with unjustified subsidies, which were approved anyway by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The report states: “In fact, 100 percent of fake applicants were approved by the ACA Marketplace as recently as late 2024, and 90 percent of fake applicants continue to receive coverage in 2025.”
The GAO report includes estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and independent external research organizations that show taxpayers may be paying for up to $27 billion a year in improper payments for millions of improperly enrolled individuals in the ACA marketplace.
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) who chairs the House Committee on the Judiciary, said in a statement:
This new report confirms what we already knew: under Obamacare, hardworking Americans saw their premiums skyrocket and their healthcare choices shrink, all while fraud benefitted insurance companies. Obamacare was built on lies and broken promises that hurt families and drove up costs.
A bipartisan group of senators met Monday night to push for an extension of the ACA tax credits but, so far, the House of Representatives has held firm against extending those subsidies.
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Another path to loot the treasury.
That’s nice.
Do something.
The GOP has had many chances to do so but they always run into an insurmountable obstacle: one of their biggest donor groups - insurance companies - love the ACA as it is and will spend big to prevent change.
Congress continues to fail the American peeps.
I wonder if the speaker remembers when John McCain voted to save it by voting no, Pepperidge Farms remembers
“𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦”
Wow! *Slow clap*
Huzzah for noticing. Now if only our charter of government had some sort of provision for elected officials to repeal bad laws.
How bout scrap it and be done. The government has no business in healthcare.
Such a charter does exist. Unfortunately, the votes in both the House and Senate in adequate numbers for repeal have not previously existed in the recent past.
At present, we are learning if there are adequate votes available at present to restore the law that is coming to a close
Who answers the phone at 800-F1uck You? (you don’t need to dial the ‘u’) That should tell you everything you need to know about the unAffordable wedon’tCare Act. Bathhouse Barry’s puppet masters just needed to control health care and a big piece of the economy. There was always only one way it would turn out.
Absent government regulation of healthcare, the entire industry would be polluted with cheap and ineffectual quacks.
“Speaker Mike Johnson on Obamacare: ‘Unaffordable Care Act Has Failed the American People’”
Speaker Mike Johnson on Obamacare: ‘Unaffordable Care Act and its author, Barack Obama, Have Failed the American People’
There, fixed it
Me as well.
When will people learn that the gov’t can’t do anything as efficiently as the private sector. Gov’t should not be in the insurance business (especially flood insurance), banking (SBA, student loans), railroad (AMTRAC), or any other business performed by the private sector. Reason: They have absolutely NO reason to be efficient. Even an idiot can buy a hammer for $600.
Get the government out of the student loan business too! and watch college cost drop like a rock!
Zerocare ruined my insurance, my health, my life, my future, my family business and 6 good paying jobs
Thanks,Obama
True; but Republicans need to convince the voters to elect legislators who agree. Meanwhile, medical care for people who really need it should not be held hostage to the competing proposals.
We already know that Mike. We also know you won’t do anything worth squat to fix it.
Another vacation is right around the corner, right Mike?
At least the fraud should be stopped before 0bamacare is replaced with something better.
How about we repeal bad congressmen, women and senators!
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