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Politico Accidentally Reveals Many Democrats Consider ObamaCare a Flop
Newsbusters ^ | December 23, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 12/23/2025 1:36:02 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Remember how Democrats once hailed ObamaCare as a "big f---ing deal?"Nowadays, as inadvertently revealed by Politico, many Democrats have turned their backs on the 15-year-old program they have come to loathe (while urging continued funding for it) and instead increasingly demand its replacement with Medicare For All.

On Sunday, Politico reporters Lisa Kashinsky and Elena Schneider revealed the deep Democrat discontent with ObamaCare in "Democrats are united in bashing GOP on Obamacare. Medicare for All could reopen a rift."

The article began with how fervently many Democrats are in their desire to ditch ObamaCare in favor of the entirely government-financed Medicare For All:

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It's a weird dichotomy among the Democrats. Many are saying that even though Obamacare really sucks to the extent that we must replace it with "Medicare For All" that we must continue subsidizing it. So after foisting Obamacare on the public on a strictly party line vote and seeing it FLOP horribly you would think they would display even a modicum of humility. BUT NO!!! They continue to attack Republicans for not wanting to continue to pay absurdly increasing subsidies for this FLOP while at the same time telling the public that they have something BETTER than Obamacare namely Medicare For All which is government run healthcare which means that would FLOP as well.

Finally, we keep hearing about a supposed GOP civil war but this split on Obamacare vs Medicare For All looks much MORE divisive than anything dividing Republicans.

1 posted on 12/23/2025 1:36:02 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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Medicare for All won’t work because you have to PAY for Medicare.


2 posted on 12/23/2025 1:39:19 PM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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2.7% of every earned dollar


3 posted on 12/23/2025 1:40:51 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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Following democrats and their logic patterns, health insurance needs to cost more than your earnings. (This was why they wanted the mandate) Then the only answer becomes a single payer government run healthcare system.

That's the finish l8ne.

4 posted on 12/23/2025 1:41:59 PM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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Trump45/47’s take on the matter notwithstanding, the purpose of Obamacare was to establish a government-run single payer health care system. Since that didn’t happen (yet), in their minds, Obamacare didn’t meet its design objective.


5 posted on 12/23/2025 1:45:00 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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You have to pay every month and there is a deductible plus you need a supplement. Medicare is expensive. They want FREE health care.


6 posted on 12/23/2025 1:46:33 PM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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Who could not figure out it would be a huge -——— disaster?


7 posted on 12/23/2025 1:48:24 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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instead increasingly demand its replacement with Medicare For All.

Which was their plan the whole time.

8 posted on 12/23/2025 1:49:58 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Obamacare was designed to fail so as to force republicans into medicare for all.


9 posted on 12/23/2025 1:53:10 PM PST by ckilmer (I )
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Gosh really? A flop huh? He was actually quite successful. As a communist mfer. As a result my wife pays $1000 a month for health insurance along with many other “successful” anti American BS that dung beetle accomplished. This among other “successes”!


10 posted on 12/23/2025 1:54:22 PM PST by albie
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Admitting failure could set some free but they unfortunately think collectively so they are incapable of accepting obvious failure.


11 posted on 12/23/2025 1:59:26 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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It turned into Barry Soetoro Care (BSC) and is costing hardworking American families a fortune. FTDs.


12 posted on 12/23/2025 2:03:21 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America IS NOT a nation of illegal alien criminals. We've got too many criminals in our judiciary. )
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Obamacare was ALWAYS supposed to be a stepping stone to the single payer option. The fact that it has failed should be a surprise to absolutely NO one.


13 posted on 12/23/2025 2:46:51 PM PST by FrankRizzo890
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Obamacare is working exactly as it was designed to do.

Destroy the existing healthcare system and replace it with a system that is so horrible that the sheeple will eventually beg for socialized medicine.


14 posted on 12/23/2025 2:57:37 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Our long national nightmare is over!)
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Depends on who got their pockets packed(Obama et al), we know who got them picked.


15 posted on 12/23/2025 3:00:40 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (there are demons out there, and they look like people)
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Lordy, just look at what this fiasco has cost the people actually paying for health insurance! 15 years of this crap and poorer quality health care to boot .
All the dei jobs in the drs offices and everybody but you getting free rides to the doctor what’s not to hate ? And the premiums.


16 posted on 12/23/2025 3:20:34 PM PST by Recompennation ( Deeeeeeeeezout )
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Ask the UK, Canadian, etc. citizens about National Health Care ..... where people go to die and it costs a fortune in taxes to do so.


17 posted on 12/23/2025 3:25:38 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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Still waiting for the $2,500 per family savings that Obama promised us in June 2008.


18 posted on 12/23/2025 3:40:18 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: albie

Why do you want to insult the noble dung beetles?


19 posted on 12/23/2025 4:13:32 PM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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“Democrats are united in bashing GOP on Obamacare.”

A program THEY rammed through, DEEMED it through, as Pelosi put it, got to PASS IT TO SEE WHAT’S IN IT, and NOT ONE SINGLE GOP VOTE was used to pass it in either House or Senate.

Nor were there any when it came up for re-authorization.

Yet now they have the gall to blame Republicans for the very thing THEY THEMSELVES CREATED!...............


20 posted on 12/23/2025 4:35:48 PM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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