Staff Reports
The latest boastful appearances by Barack Obama have brought the disastrous shadow of Obamacare back into the limelight this week. Obama claimed that his legacy, the Affordable Care Act, is something to be proud of. But the reality is undeniably grim. The ACA is a bureaucratic monster, sucking dry the wallets of hard-working Americans, while lining the pockets of lazy Washington insiders and greedy insurance companies.
Since its inception, Obamacare has promised much but delivered little. Instead of fixing the dire healthcare issues, it has plunged the market into chaos. The bill was touted as a cost-saving miracle, a magical solution to all our healthcare woes. Yet here we stand, with doubled monthly premiums and fewer choices—essentially a broken shell of what was promised. It’s anything but affordable, unless you count the taxpayer dollars that endlessly prop it up.
Obamacare's high-risk fraud: GAO submitted 24 fake apps, 23 approved with subsidies.
Even when NO docs were submitted, income was "verified."
This abject failure proves subsidies to insurers breed corruption. Time for a Trump-backed MAHA plan and provide choice instead of… pic.twitter.com/wPSitqN1uE
— Eric Burlison (@EricBurlison) December 6, 2025
This so-called reform was nothing but a Trojan horse of government overreach and dependency. It has sent the national debt into the stratosphere, and Democrats shamelessly continue to expand subsidies just to keep it in motion. The shutdowns, the endless partisan bickering—it’s all for a failed experiment that’s become a sinkhole of American resources. Liberals love to paint the ACA as a savior, yet it’s taxpayers who truly foot the bill.
But it doesn’t end there. The ACA has not only failed at cost containment but has blown regulatory power through the roof. Insurers gain price control while consumers face the fallout, like a canary in a coal mine, warning us of the impending collapse. This government-grabbed healthcare system is nothing short of a strategic disaster, doing the exact opposite of what was advertised.
Obama’s nostalgic speech asking us to applaud the continuous existence of this monstrosity is hypocritical at best. It’s high time to ask: why do Democrats persist in holding up such a failed system as a banner of success? Is it serving Americans, or simply serving itself? The problem isn’t Obamacare’s survival; it’s the people who champion its survival at the expense of everyone else.
