What infuriates me most about this crisis is how it will devastate the very people Democrats claimed to help. Rural states and communities will see the highest rates of coverage disruption, with larger percentages of residents losing marketplace coverage and becoming uninsured. Nearly 5 million midlife adults will face higher premiums, with middle-income enrollees seeing average annual increases of more than $4,000.
Look at the real families behind these statistics: a middle-class family of four in Charlotte, North Carolina, could see their annual marketplace premium costs increase by nearly $9,500. A 60-year-old couple making $85,000 per year would see their annual premium costs jump by $15,400, from about $6,900 to about $22,300. //
This is governance by crisis, the oldest trick in the Democratic playbook. Create unsustainable programs, get people dependent on them, then blame Republicans when fiscal reality intervenes. It's political malpractice disguised as compassion. //
This crisis was entirely avoidable. If Democrats had respected constitutional limits and allowed free markets to develop affordable healthcare solutions, we wouldn't face this cliff. Instead, they chose to expand federal power, create massive dependencies, and leave Republicans to clean up the wreckage.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that 5.7 million people could lose coverage when reality breaks through Democratic fiscal fantasies. That human cost lies squarely with those who created an unsustainable system and called it reform. //
The question isn't whether Congressional Republicans will fund this broken system indefinitely. The question is whether Democrats will finally accept responsibility for the chaos they've created and work toward sustainable, constitutional solutions that serve American families without bankrupting the federal government. //
charlie
2 hours ago
We can thank John Roberts for changing his mind on the (un)constitionality of Obamacare and John McCain for being, well, John McCain. //
Jprs
3 hours ago
“The question is whether Democrats will finally accept responsibility for the chaos they've created and work toward sustainable, constitutional solutions that serve American families without bankrupting the federal government.”
Hint: they won’t. They will point to rising healthcare cost and say it was because of the BBB that was just passed. And the dishonest media will repeat this ad nauseam and many Americans will believe it. //
