Republicans need to finish what they started and end Obamacare once and for all.
The system has failed spectacularly, delivering higher premiums and worse coverage while enriching insurance companies at the expense of working families. President Trump made this abundantly clear when he called on Senate Republicans to completely dismantle Obamacare and redirect the hundreds of billions of dollars currently funneled to insurance companies back to the American people so they can purchase their own, better healthcare with leftover funds.
I don’t know if Trump’s solution is the best one, but I do know that the system we have now, the system that Democrats created, is a complete mess and a total failure. It’s a system that's designed to protect insurance companies rather than serve the people. And the Democrats own that failure 100%. They passed Obamacare without a single Republican vote, and they own it.
Senator Ron Johnson took Democrats to task for refusing to acknowledge the devastating impact of Obamacare. The Democrats have built their entire political brand around denying reality, but the pain caused by Obamacare is impossible to ignore. Johnson called out Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who had the audacity to claim, "I don't know of anyone who has been harmed by Obamacare."
The statement is either willfully ignorant or deliberately dishonest. I’m going to go with the latter, because everyone is facing higher premiums because of Obamacare—subsidies or not.
Johnson countered with real stories of real people harmed by this disastrous law. Disabled children are stuck on home healthcare waiting lists because able-bodied adults are crowding them out thanks to Medicaid expansion. Employees whose companies dropped group coverage were forced into unaffordable Obamacare exchanges. One witness who testified at a Democratic hearing was forced into the exchanges in 2016 after her employer dropped coverage. She paid $12,000 a year for a silver plan before switching to a bronze plan to save some money, but that plan came with a $14,000 deductible. That’s what people have to deal with now because of Obamacare, spending more for coverage that doesn’t actually kick in until you spent thousands of dollars out of pocket. Even though Obamacare was supposed to make health insurance more affordable, the witness explained that she and her husband had to take out an $18,000 home equity loan just to cover medical bills the bronze plan would not pay.
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Johnson also highlighted a Wall Street Journal article about a father with a severely autistic 17-year-old child on a 10-year waiting list for home health care because Medicaid expansion beneficiaries are crowding them out. He recounted the story of Ms. Verstegen, who paid $1,000 a month in 2019 for coverage she could barely afford, then moved to an Obamacare policy costing $250 a month with a $14,000 deductible. She ultimately took out an $18,000 home equity line of credit to pay for care.
Democrats are in a complete state of denial about the damage done by Obamacare:
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) November 7, 2025
Senator Blumenthal: “I don’t know of anyone who has been harmed by Obamacare.”
Huh? What about…
• Disabled children stuck on home healthcare waiting lists, crowded out by able-bodied adults.
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There’s a pattern here that Democrats refuse to acknowledge.
These are not abstract problems. These are victims of Obamacare, and Democrats refuse to acknowledge their existence. Johnson expressed sympathy for these Americans while emphasizing the need for structural reform rather than throwing more money at a broken system to "paint over the rusty structure."
To make matters were, the Schumer Shutdown was forced on us by Senate Democrats over healthcare provisions for illegal immigrants. Democrats claim they are protecting families, but they are actually protecting insurance companies and perpetuating a system that keeps people dependent on taxpayer dollars.
And it’s only getting worse.
The numbers tell the story Democrats don’t want to admit. Obamacare premiums are set to soar by 26% next year—clear proof of what Republicans have been saying from the start. Democrats built the law on government subsidies and false promises, not affordability or competition. After more than a decade of failure, the verdict is in. Obamacare isn’t broken—it was a disaster from day one. It’s time to scrap it entirely and return it to a free-market system that works for the American people, not Washington bureaucrats.
