Obamacare: Disentangling the Private from the Public

By enacting ObamaCare, Democrats changed America’s entire healthcare system. With their brazen hubris on full display, the Dems took what had been working well for decades and interwove it with what had never existed. That is, they took private health insurance freely purchased by individuals and employers, and recklessly entangled it with government subsidies to purchase that insurance. It was like putting cosmetic surgery patients in the hospital wing with the Ebola patients. And it was a deliberate effort to create a system that could never be repealed. Indeed, former Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius described the structure of the new system as so “intimately entwined” that it could never be dismantled, “because frankly there isn’t anything to go back to.” She was unwittingly admitting that the government had destroyed the old system, which, incidentally, had a functioning market. When the Democrats were selling ObamaCare to the...(Read Full Article)

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