Democrats shut down the government trying to hold America hostage to a failed socialist healthcare system. Obamacare was never about fixing healthcare, it was about expanding government control. As a result, premiums rose, deductibles skyrocketed, and doctors were less accessible. Millions of Americans were told they were “covered,” yet discovered their deductibles were so high it was if they had no insurance at all. The Affordable Care Act focused on forcing participation instead of lowering costs, and the burden landed squarely on working families who were too “wealthy” for subsidies and too responsible to go uninsured. And it gave the government entry to your bodily autonomy. Remember COVID?
The deductibles expose the lie at the center of the system. When deductibles sit at $5,000, $7,000, or more, insurance becomes a paper shield. Who can use it? Not the poor. Not the middle class living paycheck to paycheck. The result is delayed care, skipped prescriptions, and untreated conditions, the same behavior patterns seen before Obamacare, only now wrapped in bureaucratic language and expanded across the whole of society. Socialized healthcare doesn’t eliminate inequality, it codifies it. Enrollment numbers replace real outcomes, and politicians claim moral victory while patients continue to suffer. Rather than admit these failures, Democratic leaders now insist on extending and expanding ACA subsidies indefinitely. These subsidies do not reduce healthcare costs, they transfer them. It’s socialist wealth redistribution.
Premium increases are hidden from consumers and dumped onto taxpayers, requiring larger infusions of public money every year just to keep the system from unraveling. Congressional Democrats have warned that allowing enhanced subsidies to expire is unacceptable, even threatening more government shutdowns. When a program requires perpetual emergency funding to survive, it isn’t working. This is the classic socialist cycle, failure leads to denial, denial demands more money, and dissent is labeled cruelty. There is a better path, and it starts with freedom. Republicans have proposed expanding Health Savings Accounts, restoring catastrophic insurance options, allowing policies to be sold across state lines, promoting direct primary care, and enforcing price transparency so patients can shop for care like adults.
These reforms recognize a simple truth: people spend their own money more carefully than politicians spend someone else’s. Competition lowers prices. Choice improves service. Independence restores dignity. Another truth is that socialism in any form doesn’t work. After the COVID era, when government mandates replaced medical judgment and trust was squandered at scale, no rational society should hand Washington more control over healthcare. Scripture offers a clear warning in Luke 14:28: “For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it?” When socialism abounds, freedom erodes, and failure is rebranded as virtue… say it with me…Stupidocrisy.
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https://www.kff.org/health-reform/fact-sheet/health-insurance-marketplaces-101/
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https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58969
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-healthcare-subsidies-face-uncertain-future-congress-debates-extension-2024-06-12/
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