Democrats and the media hammered Republicans for refusing to reauthorize the Affordable Care act’s enhanced subsidies – subsidies that Democrats added to Obamacare’s original subsidies as part of pandemic relief in 2021.
Now, Republicans are considering their own reforms to give people more control over their healthcare dollars and increase access to a wide variety of affordable health insurance policies.
It’s been a long time coming.
Recall that Republicans wanted to “repeal and replace” Obamacare in the first few months of President Donald Trump’s first term. But it took them seven months to agree on a plan, only to have it fail in the Senate when maverick Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., cast the deciding “no” vote.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the gross federal cost of Obamacare subsidies was $18 billion in 2014, $50 billion in 2018, and $92 billion (which included the enhanced subsidies) in 2023.
Democrats and progressives want the3 government at the center of all healthcare decisions so that doctors, hospitals, health insurers, ad even patients must look to the government to determine what care and insurance coverage will be available and at what price.
Read the full article in the January 2026 online edition of Newsmax (pg 31-31).
the attached article came through too small to read. I will try and get it from another source.
I used a roller device on my mouse to enlarge the print.
Mr Mathews is always perceptive.
If we go back to medical underwriting, the number of uninsurables could be very high.
Kaiser is kind of left-wing so they predict high numbers…..
“An updated KFF analysis estimates that almost 54 million people – or 27% of all adults under 65 —have pre-existing health conditions that would likely have made them uninsurable in the individual markets that existed in most states before the Affordable Care Act.
The share of adults under 65 with such declinable pre-existing conditions varies significantly across states, from at least a third in West Virginia (37%), Arkansas (34%), Kentucky (34%), and Mississippi (34%) to a little more than one in five in Colorado (22%).”