The Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—was rammed through Congress in 2010 by a corrupt Marxist-Progressive Democrat machine that sneered at bipartisan input and bullied dissenters into silence. Fifteen years later, with premium hikes of 20–40 percent looming for 2026, the program’s abstract failure is no longer theoretical; it is a daily torment for millions of Americans who were promised utopia and handed a bill. The only unambiguous winners are the health-insurance cartels and Big Pharma, the very industries that ghost-wrote the 2,700-page monstrosity in smoke-filled back rooms.
Start with the ledger of beneficiaries. Insurance giants—UnitedHealth, Anthem, Aetna, Humana—saw their stock prices triple within five years of passage. They lobbied for the individual mandate, the Medicaid expansion, and the risk-corridor bailouts that funneled taxpayer dollars straight into their coffers when their actuarial bets soured. Big Pharma, meanwhile, secured a ban on Medicare drug-price negotiation (which President Trump is confronting) and a guaranteed customer base of 20 million newly subsidized souls. The rest of us? We got higher deductibles, narrower networks, and the privilege of subsidizing this corporate welfare state.
The imbecilic and corrupt Left crowed that 20 million “newly insured” would make America healthier. Instead, it simply overcrowded every waiting room from Bangor to San Diego. “Wellness visits”—free under Obamacare—became a federally subsidized hobby for the worried well, who now camp out for blood-pressure checks that used to cost $20 cash. Illegal immigrants, quietly folded into state exchanges and emergency Medicaid rolls, further clogged the system.
A 2023 Commonwealth Fund study admitted average wait times for new-patient appointments had doubled since 2010; rural hospitals shuttered 140 facilities in the same span. More coverage, less care—exactly the Soviet bread-line outcome the central planners never admit.
The original sales pitch was based on two bald-faced lies: premiums would fall by $2,500 per family, and “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Both exploded on contact with reality. The average family premium has nearly tripled since 2013, from $5,800 to $16,400, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Deductibles now routinely exceed $8,000—money patients must spend before the “insurance” kicks in, rendering the policy a catastrophic coupon at best. Networks shrank as insurers fled unprofitable markets; the promise of keeping your doctor morphed into keeping whichever overworked stranger is on call at the in-network clinic—if you can get an appointment before next year.
Contrast this with the pre-Obamacare world, when nonprofit organizations like Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans dominated. These mutual organizations sold straightforward hospitalization insurance: you paid a modest premium, and if lightning struck, the hospital bill was covered. No $500 “free” colonoscopies, no 400-page explanation-of-benefits riddles, no surprise $3,000 facility fee for an MRI, no $30 aspirin. Premiums were a third of today’s costs, and the plans were actuarially sound because they weren’t forced to subsidize hypochondria and wellness spa days. The Marxist-Progressives demonized this system as “junk insurance,” but it was honest: it protected against catastrophe, not against the inconvenience of a $90 copay.
Obamacare is not merely inefficient; it is a net destroyer of human life. A 2022 National Bureau of Economic Research paper found that states with the deepest ACA exchange penetration saw all-cause mortality rise relative to non-expansion states, as delayed care and financial stress outweighed any marginal gain in preventive screenings. People skip insulin, postpone cancer scans, and ration blood-pressure pills because the deductible is tantamount to a second mortgage. The program has hurt more Americans than it has helped—full stop—and must be rescinded root and branch.
Rescission, however, is only half the cure. The federal government must then eviscerate the Deep State-enabled Big Pharma/Health Insurance Industrial Complex that Obamacare supercharged. Break the patent-evergreening rackets that keep Humira prices at $7,000 a month while the same molecule costs $600 in Europe. Repeal the insurance cartel exemptions under McCarran-Ferguson that let them collude on prices the way OPEC colludes on oil. Allow portability across state lines and genuine catastrophic plans to compete nationwide, free from wellness-visit mandates and maternity coverage requirements for 70-year-old men. Let doctors sell cash-based primary care without the 35 percent overhead of billing a labyrinthine ACA plan. Fracture the monopolies, and watch prices plummet the way LASIK and cosmetic surgery prices have—because those markets were never hijacked by this collusion.
Health insurance is no longer a business; it is a government-sanctioned scam. The actuarial tables are cooked, the risk pools are warped, and the middlemen skim 20 cents of every dollar before a single bandage is applied. People are dying—quietly, bankrupt, and alone—because the Marxist-Progressive fantasy of “universal coverage” ignored the immutable law that you cannot subsidize everything for everyone without bankrupting someone. That someone is now every working family staring at a 30 percent rate hike notice in January.
Obamacare was sold as compassion. It delivered corporate socialism for the connected and austerity for the rest of us. Tear it down, scatter its architects, and let a thousand competitive experiments bloom. Only then will America’s healthcare sector serve patients instead of parasites.
When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.
In Closing…
Obamacare’s collapse is here—premiums exploding 20-40 percent next year, while insurance giants and BigPharma count billions. Twenty million “covered,” yet waiting rooms overflow with wellness tourists and illegal immigrants, doctors vanish, and families skip meds to afford $8,000 deductibles. The Marxist-Progressive lies—“lower costs,” “keep your doctor”—delivered the opposite.
Nonprofits once sold honest catastrophic plans; now we fund a scam that kills quietly through bankruptcy and delay. Rescind it all. Shatter the BigPharma-Health Insurance cartel, free the market, and let competition save lives.
America deserves healthcare that heals, not one that bleeds us dry and into the coffin.
Until next time…
