Posted on 10/08/2025 10:47:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Billions flow from taxpayers to insurance companies while families pay more for less care and shrinking doctor networks
For the second week in a row, Democrats are blocking roughly a quarter of federal spending, causing what Washington calls a government “shutdown,” unless Congress gives additional billions of taxpayer dollars to private health insurance companies via Obamacare. Republicans have never taken responsibility for Obamacare, and they should not start.
Obamacare offers junk insurance at outrageous premiums. In 2021, Democrats created temporary COVID-19 emergency premium subsidies for families earning $130,000 to $600,000 annually because even wealthy people struggle to afford Obamacare. These supposed “tax credits” are just checks the government sends to private health insurance companies. Thankfully, those temporary subsidies expire at the end of this year.
Democrats want to make those subsidies permanent because if they disappear, it would reveal that Obamacare’s excessive premiums and junk coverage are unpopular, as they have been from the beginning.
Public opinion turned against the first draft the moment Democrats introduced it in June 2009. After Democrats passed the “Affordable Care Act” by a single vote, voters gave them a “shellacking” in the 2010 midterms.
Congress has since repealed dozens of unpopular ACA provisions. The long-term care program? Gone. The death panel? Gone. “Every single one of the funding mechanisms to help offset the cost of the bill has been repealed,” says health reporter Julie Rovner. “The individual mandate is gone. Most of the industry-specific taxes are gone. The Cadillac tax … is gone.”
Dozens of other provisions were so unpopular that bureaucrats and judges rewrote them, in many cases subverting the Constitution by legislating without Congress.
Ignoring the ACA’s spending limits, the Obama and Biden administrations issued billions of dollars in illegal subsidies to millions of ineligible people, including members of Congress, and diverted funds from...
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“The individual mandate is gone. Most of the industry-specific taxes are gone. The Cadillac tax is...gone.
Dozens of other provisions were so unpopular that bureaucrats and judges rewrote them, in many cases subverting the Constitution by legislating without Congress.”
fJRoberts !
My wife needed it for that "Medigap" period between 62 and 65. The most useless $60,000 in healthcare premiums ever. I guess the only difference is that I had to pay that. No tax credits siphoned out of the public Treasury to the insurance companies.
Without insurance, Medicare would assess a financial penalty into Medicare FOR LIFE.
In hindsight she should have taken out a Medigap plan with catastrophic coverage. Those rn about $800 a month, but she wanted a "Marketplace Plan" because of advice from her free loading family. I don't take on those kinda fights.
My suspicion is that social security will eventually be consumed by ever increasing Medicare premiums. Senior Healthcare will eventually be all you get out of Social Security. If you don’t accept that, they will kill you.
ObamaCare is a typical Democrat scam:
1. Take a problem.
2. Present yourself as the only one who can solve the problem.
3. Create a solution that makes the problem worse.
4. Promote your solution as the best thing ever.
5. Spend trillions of dollars.
6. Wait 15 years.
7. Your solution has now made the problem 10x worse.
8. Present yourself as the only one who understands the problem.
9. Create a solution that makes the problem even worse.
This is a big effin’ deal.
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