Posted on 10/24/2025 11:01:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ACA was a costly illusion.
The focus of the current government shutdown circus has increasingly narrowed to Democrat demands to undo proposed reductions in very large, supposedly temporary, Covid-era Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) subsidy boosts. A major part of their public push is the claim that they are trying to save citizens money, though what they are actually demanding is that we shift the burden to future generations via increased federal debt, backed by the threat of demonizing Republicans as heartless for taking away any benefits. They emphasize the need to maintain the “great deal” the ACA offered.
The problem with their emphasis was revealed by a recent Washington Post editorial that admitted that “The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] was never actually affordable,” because “policies cost more than expected.” The Post cited the assumption that “risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be” for the gap between the Act’s name and reality. However, the fact is that “higher than expected costs” were actually expected by ACA’s architects, but were intentionally misrepresented to make a sow’s ear look more like a silk purse to voters.
Most instructive on this score were comments made by MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, who helped assemble Obamacare, at the time.
Remember the proposed 40% tax on “Cadillac” company insurance coverage? Gruber admitted it was really a means to tax workers in a way that would lead them to blame employers rather than the ACA for expensive plans. Employers were legally responsible to pay the tax, but every economist knows who actually bears the burden. When employers know their costs will be higher as a result of the tax, employees are worth less...
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The entire purpose of obamacare was to crash the existing system and inflate the pricing so high, that Americans would eagerly embrace government-delivery of medical services . . . single payer.
Stopped health insurance when it was $16k and a $8k deductible
do you recall your prior rates
Othing like a monopoly to reduce rates, not.
I know the vet bills went up at the same time. How shocked are we? Not very damn much.
Obamacare was insidious, because it was implemented slowly.
Kind of like the frog in the hot water.
We have not noticed huge changes from day to day.
But looking backwards, since it passed, my healthcare went downhill fast.
My cost went up a lot (slowly, but steadily) while the level of care went down a lot. I remember the times when waiting time for specialist appointment or surgery was in days, while now it is in weeks, months or half a years!
So “thanks” to Obama, I have less care for more $$$!
I am SOOOO thankful!
I just hope, they will sometimes get rid of this abomination!
Obamacare hurt the people who had to pay full freight for their insurance. The wait times to see a doctor increased dramatically after Obamacare was implemented, because all of a sudden the people who did not work got insurance. I was paying for them to see a doctor before me. Also, prior to Obamacare, hospitals and clinics actually tried to treat their medical staff nice. Not great, but not super horrible. When Obamacare came in, it turned administrators into animals, worried about money and taking it out on their medical staff to see more patients , in a timely fashion. However, your satisfaction scores better be good. Which is impossible if your schedule is crammed.
Obamacare needs to be completely terminated.
A cancer foisted on us by the Kenyan.
“Obamacare Was Never Affordable” to the surprise of absolutely no one with a 3-digit IQ. It was not only the sub-standard care provided but some of the satellite requirements like forcing insurance companies to charge for female event coverage when the insured was a male.
Yep and John McCain lied and lied about fighting it
Time to rip off the stained OCare band aid. It will hurt, but it will stimulate solutions that don’t include the fat fingers of government.
Another donation to the democrat party.
Time, age, and distance have erased that memory.
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