The Obamacare collapse Congress can’t ignore

The Schumer Shutdown failed miserably. He wanted to permanently fund Obamacare. While that attempt fell short, Republicans agreed to a floor vote in December. This is now the best opportunity to end the Obamacare nightmare.

A vote by the House and Senate is expected soon regarding 320 BILLION dollars to cover the next 10 years of extra costs for Obamacare. And that number is just a fraction of the actual costs.

Urge Congress to reject Obamacare and give the people real choice for better health care.

When the so-called “Affordable Care Act” (ACA, also known as “Obamacare”) was launched, Democrats promised it would reduce costs and lower the deficit. The average monthly premium per person was only 215 dollars in 2010. But the government always messes up everything it touches.

Now, the costs have climbed past 600 dollars per month, with taxpayers footing the majority of the costs. Meanwhile, deductibles can be up to 7,000 dollars per person.

Next month, costs are scheduled to jump to 1,200 dollars. That is 1,000 dollars per month above the initial cost, and out of reach for most people.

Insurance companies don’t need more help. “America’s largest health insurers have raked in more than $371 billion in profits since the passage of the Affordable Care Act,” Helen Santoro reported. “[P]remiums have risen to nearly $26,000 a year. In all, since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, more than $9 trillion of revenue has flowed to the country’s largest health insurance companies.”

On top of that, Democrats want taxpayers to throw more money — 320 billion — at these insurance companies. The problem is that you can’t spend your way out of a broken system where companies are raking in trillions of dollars.

We have been weighed down by a partially socialized system for 60 years through Medicare and Medicaid. Now Democrats have added to that with 15 years of Obamacare — and these costs are 25% of our national budget.

We cannot continue the Obamacase lie. It is unsustainable and has become unaffordable. Urge Congress to act NOW to throw off the shackles of Obamacare, which has miserably failed.

It will be difficult for some moderate Republicans to vote against subsidies for Obamacare when it impacts 24 million voters nationwide — unless there is an alternative plan in place. This is why Congress needs to act NOW to create the opportunity for those on Obamacare to have private, effective health coverage plans.

Even with taxpayers covering the bulk of the cost, families are drowning. Real people like Doug and Teresa Butchart in Oregon still pay over 600 dollars each month — even with subsidies — and their deductible tops 5,000 dollars before insurance even kicks in. They say if prices rise again, they’ll have to drop coverage altogether.

Obamacare was never about making health care affordable.

It was built to break our medical system and then replace it with socialized control. It shoved millions of healthy, working-age adults onto Medicaid, forced young people to buy overpriced plans they rarely used, and tied doctors’ hands with endless paperwork.

Hospitals and clinics now employ armies of billing staff, compliance officers, and “navigators” to feed federal databases — while patients wait longer and pay more. Administrative costs have exploded, while the quality of care has declined. I know many physicians who left the practice because of Obamacare.

Even Democrats are embarrassed. They’ve quietly tried to drop the term “Obamacare” and call it only the “Affordable Care Act,” pretending it isn’t the same broken law that doubled premiums and tripled deductibles.

One of the only “concessions” from the Schumer Shutdown is a promised vote on even more Obamacare subsidies next month. This is going to be a tough battle. And some Republicans are already signaling they’ll cave to this disaster — pouring billions more into a system that doesn’t work when we should be fixing the system. Tell Congress to act now and fix the root problem, instead of putting a bandage of our tax dollars on this gangrene of socialism.

Congress must:

• Slash the red tape that eats up one-third of every health-care dollar on administrative and unnecessary costs.

• Unleash competition to drive down prescription and hospital costs.

• End coverage for illegals and able-bodied adults who refuse to work.

• Hold states accountable to repay illegally drained federal funds.

It’s time to rewrite our medical payment system — not to expand the government’s grip, but to restore choice, affordability, and freedom.

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