Trump Says Stop Obamacare Funding to Insurance Companies, Give Those ‘Hundreds of Billions’ to Americans
Noah Stanton – For over a decade, hardworking families have watched their insurance premiums skyrocket while insurance executives cash bonus checks that could fund small towns. The system isn’t just broken; it’s been engineered to transfer wealth from your kitchen table to corporate boardrooms.
The current government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history at 40 days, has laid bare this ugly truth: Democrats are holding the nation hostage, demanding that taxpayers continue funding what they call “essential” Obamacare subsidies. But essential for whom? Certainly not for the millions of Americans who can barely afford their deductibles, even with government help. Continue reading
MIT professor Jonathan Gruber has produced a firestorm of controversy over remarks made in various settings about the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and how drafters like himself relied on the “stupidity” of voters in passing the legislation. It appears that the Gruber hits keep coming, even as he prepares for another round of questioning in Congress. The latest comments from 2009 reveal Gruber saying that Obamacare would not produce affordable health care for many citizens since its focus is coverage not costs. This statement made five months before the passage of the Act from a key architect is in stark contrast to President Obama’s repeated assertions that premiums would go down dramatically. The latest statement will fuel questioning before Congress on whether the White House knew that premiums were unlikely to do down and that 
