Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Lessons from the Government Shutdown

The Health Care Subsidy Argument was Always a Lie...
...and that Obamacare Subsidies are a Complete and Utter Failure as Health Policy as they EXPLODE Health Care Costs (Up 30% this year).  Just like Government Subsidized University Tuitions, it's inflation on steroids.  The higher the subsidies, the more medical professionals can charge patients in a self-fulfilling pricing cycle prophesy of ever higher cost.
"Larger and ever-increasing subsidies will bring down healthcare costs," Democrats insist.  @@
The Expiring Covid Era "Enhanced" Subsidies were always just a boondoggle to increase the original government subsidy amounts AND greatly expand the number of enrollees eligible for subsidies by doubling the Max qualifying Income level from $96k per year to $193k per year

5 comments:

The Prophet Dervish Z Sanders said...

Republican origins: The ACA was modeled on “Romneycare,” the health reform law passed in Massachusetts under Republican Governor Mitt Romney in 2006. That plan included an individual mandate, subsidies, and insurance exchanges — the same pillars later adopted nationally.

Obama’s assumption: By proposing a Republican‑designed framework, President Obama expected bipartisan support. Instead, the ACA became a partisan battleground, with repeated repeal attempts despite its conservative pedigree.

Political inversion: What began as a Republican idea was reframed as “Obamacare” and attacked by Republicans, showing how political identity often overrides policy substance.

(Via Copilot).

Joe Conservative said...

Romney was a Never-Trump UniParty ally, Derv. Why do you think I (and many other Republicans) didn't vote for him in 2012? Mr. Hedge-fund was heavily invested in Medical Care company investor flipping schemes... like one the VP Joe Biden's brother pushed at the time Obamacare was being formed.

Hedge funds and insurance company (exchange) middle-men made billions off Obamacare. They sucked up all the government Obamacare subsidies, and then some.

Joe Conservative said...

Americore Health, a for-profit healthcare company founded in 2016 in Lauderdale, Florida, acquired and managed rural hospitals in the United States. The company aimed to revitalize rural communities and emphasize preventative medicine. Americore encountered financial and legal difficulties, including lawsuits alleging financial misconduct and health violations, ultimately leading to bankruptcy. Grant White and James Biden were involved in the company's operations.

Joe Conservative said...

Mitt Romney... the bain of American Healthcare.

Oswald said...

The Country is Closed, and due to Cucky Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and a few other Lefties the ENTIRE Country coming unglued and unhinged

The so-called “Party of Compassion, the Party of the People, and the Party of the Progressives” those leftist Radicals just proved once again that it’s willing to punish the American people to protect a failed political monument, Obamacare. The Democrats’ decision to shut down the government wasn’t about healthcare, fairness, or compassion. It was about power, control, and forcing a radical agenda down the throats of taxpayers who are already struggling to stay afloat.
I'm going to give you a case study from this morning. Lefty is becoming unhinged. Lefty does not like that the border has been closed, and Lefty does not want to hear that our economic problems are mainly due to 37 trillion dollars of debt, and the bill has come due, poor government policies, and a wide open border for decades. You can't reason with Lefty any longer, they listen to nothing that the right says, they present almost no logical arguments, and are great at calling names like "Nazi's, or Hitler"
For weeks, 40 long days and nights, Americans faced needless pain, paychecks delayed, essential services suspended, and uncertainty spreading through every corner of the country, all because Democrats refused to pass a funding bill unless their sacred cow, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), got another infusion of taxpayer cash.

The “Affordable” Healthcare Act That Never Was

Let’s stop pretending the ACA was ever “affordable.” From day one, the numbers didn’t add up. Families watched their premiums skyrocket, their deductibles soar, and their supposed “coverage” vanish behind layers of bureaucratic red tape. Millions of Americans poured millions of dollars into a system designed to never let them reach their deductible caps, while politicians patted themselves on the back for “reforming healthcare.