Obamacare Didn't Fail - It's Working Exactly As Intended

... I recall exactly how Obamacare's passage unfolded.

It was forced on an unwilling American people by the Democrats, who shoved it through Congress without a single Republican vote. Many people, myself included, warned it was a bait-and-switch scheme that wouldn't lower healthcare costs but would usher in single-payer socialized medicine.

Now that we're facing another negotiation on Obamacare subsidies, it's time to remind you that Barack's signature legislation didn't fail. Nothing "went wrong" with it. It's working exactly as designed because its purpose was to crash the private insurance industry and become a political wedge issue...

That's why, for example, Democrats demanded a year-long extension on the COVID-era subsidies...

Avik Roy said, "[Obamacare] overcharged healthy people that needed insurance to help fund the cost of insurance for sick people, and overcharged young people... The end result is, if only sicker and older people buy insurance, the price of insurance for everybody goes through the roof."

That is accurate. But that was also intentional...

Yesterday, I wrote about Do No Harm winning a suit to undo a Biden-era rule that rewarded doctors who implemented "anti-racist" plans for their practices. During my interview with Dr. Goldfarb, we touched briefly on woke changes to things like the kidney transplant list, where racial differences were removed despite the fact that Blacks and Whites have different kidney function. The long story short: these "anti-racist" changes definitely cost White people spots on the transplant list, and probably led to deaths.

Now imagine that policy across the entirety of healthcare...