Democrats are once again panicking over Obamacare because the enhanced subsidies are about to expire. They’re treating it like the end of the world, but the real problem isn’t the loss of subsidies. It’s that Obamacare never worked in the first place.
When Democrats passed Obamacare without a single Republican vote, and Obama signed it into law, they sold it as the fix for a broken health care system. We were promised lower premiums, better coverage, and being able to keep our existing plans if we liked them.
All lies.
What we got instead were exploding premiums and sky-high deductibles. Despite paying more, our coverage didn’t even get better; it got worse, and millions of Americans learned the hard way that “affordable” wasn’t part of the deal… and it wasn’t ever meant to be.
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Now, Americans are fed up — and the numbers prove it. According to a new Gallup poll, 23% of Americans think our health care system is “in a state of crisis,” and another 47% say it has “major problems.” That’s a combined 70% negative outlook, a pretty clear rebuke of the system Democrats built. Even more revealing, these concerns run deep across party lines: 81% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans say the system is in serious trouble. Please don’t ask me how or why fewer Republicans have such a bleak assessment of Obamacare than Democrats, but that’s what the numbers say. What I do know is that when even the left admits Obamacare has failed, it’s time to face reality.
The situation is not good.
Health care costs have now overtaken every other health issue in importance for voters, with 29% calling it the nation’s most urgent health problem, the highest since 1987. Americans are watching their bills climb, their doctor options shrink, and their access to care erode. And despite years of Democrat promises, satisfaction is at record lows. Only 16% say they’re satisfied with the total cost of health care in the U.S.
For a law that was supposed to make everything cheaper and better, that’s a complete failure.
Meanwhile, Democrats are hyperventilating over expiring subsidies and demanding a three-year extension. But it’s all the same tired play: throw money at the failing system.
Republicans, at least, are trying to fix the underlying problems. This week, the House will vote on the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, the House GOP’s proposal to fix Obamacare by no longer throwing taxpayer money at a broken system and by targeting the real cost drivers that are sending prices up through the roof in the first place.
Despite widespread dissatisfaction with the current system, Republicans won’t get any help from Democrats. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced he’d vote “no” before even reading the bill. That tells you everything you need to know about where the left stands. Their solution is always the same: take more of your money and funnel it back into a government program that keeps failing.
This new poll should be a wake-up call. Americans overwhelmingly see the mess Obamacare created, and they want something better, something that actually works.
It’s been more than a decade since Obamacare took effect, and it’s never delivered what was promised. Costs are out of control, satisfaction is in the basement, and the so-called “Affordable Care Act” has turned out to be anything but. Enough excuses. Enough patch jobs. If there was ever a moment to finally stick a fork in this Obamacare disaster, it’s now.
