Providence Journal

Leave government out of healthcare

Democrats have shut down government, their primary reason being to force a continuation in perpetuity of Obamacare subsidies enacted during the COVID emergency. This is an admission of Obamacare's failure (remember how Obamacare promised a $2,500 annual reduction in premiums per family?). Now premiums are so expensive that we need to spend tens of billions that we don't have per year to keep people on it. This would be a giant step toward the Democratic dream of Medicare for All.

The closest comparable scheme to that dream is Britain's National Health Service. In the most recent year for which we have data, 120,000 people in Britain died while on waiting lists for care. 50,000 people have been waiting more than 2 years to see a doct

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