There are insane levels of gaslighting coming from the Democratic Party these days. That's especially true when it comes to healthcare. Throughout the 40 days of the Schumer Shutdown, Democrats insisted that they had nothing to do with the exploding costs of insurance.
Instead, they blame President Trump and Republicans.
President Trump is the reason your health care costs are going up.
— Senator Peter Welch (@SenPeterWelch) November 12, 2025
As I've written about in the past, Obamacare is working exactly as the Democrats intended it to. It's not broken. It's not failing. It's collapsing the private healthcare system under a crushing weight so Democrats can usher in socialized medicine and take tremendous control over the American economy and our lives.
Instead of raising premiums for millions, how about we just get rid of them?
— Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) November 13, 2025
Medicare for All!!
Does Jayapal expect doctors and nurses to work for free? Does she expect pharmaceutical companies to keep creating life-saving and life-sustaining drugs for no profit, no return on their investment?
Does she expect medical research companies and labs to continue working to cure diseases and create new treatments without a financial incentive to do so? The answer, apparently, is yes.
Instead of letting the free market decide health insurance rates, Democrats used the government's largesse as a payoff for insurance companies, who now have no incentive to lower costs. Instead, they increase the rates to offset paying for "free" healthcare for others. Likewise, medical facilities — many of them forced to take the sub-par Medicare reimbursement rates and write off care for illegals and others who can't pay their medical bills — pass along the costs to insured patients in the form of higher bills for them.
And as the Democrats flood the country with more illegal immigrants and keep expanding the dependent class, those costs will keep going up. After all, if 42 million Americans are on SNAP, do we really think they're paying for health insurance, too?
The same mathematical reality applies to student loans, by the way. It's no coincidence that tuition costs and debt skyrocketed the second that the government tried to make college "affordable." But that's not the topic at hand here.
If you want to know how health insurance should work, look no further than other types of insurance. I pay about $90 per month for my homeowners' policy, and about $300 a month for car insurance. That also means when I go to the store to buy a gallon of paint, it's $45, or new tires are $800. If we treated either of those like health insurance, yeah, I might not have to pay out of pocket for that paint or those tires, but the paint will cost $500 a gallon and the tires $3,000.
Years ago, I ended up in the ER with sharp abdominal pains. I thought, perhaps, it was my appendix. Turned out I was pregnant with my youngest. The pregnancy test the hospital did cost $90. For a test that was maybe $5 at Walmart, and just as reliable. See the problem there?
Insurance was meant to protect against catastrophe, those things we absolutely cannot afford, and not routine care. If we went back to such a model and got government and administrators out of health care, not only would insurance premiums go down, but so too would most health care services.
But they're not, and it's not because of President Trump or Republicans. The blame lies squarely and solely on the Democratic Party.
It bears repeating, but it was the Democrats who passed the Affordable Care Act. They did so without a single Republican vote. It was also Democrats who voted for the COVID-era Obamacare subsidies and their impending sunset date. They did that without a single Republican vote, too.
And they told us why: they like leveraging our suffering to their political advantage.
