Democrats Blame GOP for Obamacare Crisis They Created

As the government shutdown stretches on, Democrats are scrambling to spin a crisis of their own making skyrocketing Obamacare premiums that threaten to price millions of Americans out of health insurance. But instead of taking responsibility for the failed policies behind the spike, they’re doing what they do best: blaming Republicans.

The truth is clear to anyone willing to look beyond the talking points.

Since 2021, Democrats have poured billions of dollars into temporary “enhanced” subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), propping up a system that was already failing under its own weight. Now that those COVID-era subsidies are set to expire, the real costs of Obamacare are finally showing and they’re brutal.

Here’s how bad it’s about to get if the subsidies lapse:

• West Virginia: +387%

• Wyoming: +382%

• Alaska: +346%

• Tennessee: +320%

• Mississippi: +314%

• South Dakota: +235%

• Louisiana: +150%

These numbers were posted by none other than Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who tried to frame this as a Republican problem. But it only proves what conservatives warned all along Obamacare was never sustainable without endless taxpayer bailouts.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) echoed the panic, warning that “20 million Americans will see a dramatic rise in premium costs” and that “another 4 million people will lose their coverage completely” if Congress doesn’t extend the subsidies. But these aren’t “Republican cuts” they’re Democrat sunsets built into the original COVID packages.

Brian Blase, president of the Paragon Health Institute and former White House advisor, laid out the timeline that exposes the entire scam:

1. Obamacare caused premiums to rise from the start.

2. Democrats slapped on massive subsidies to hide the increases.

3. Temporary COVID-era sweeteners made it worse.

4. Those bonus subsidies were always meant to expire and now they are.

“The premium increase will hit regardless of what Congress does,” Blase wrote. “That is an unfortunate feature of how Obamacare is working.”

Let that sink in: even if Congress keeps pouring in subsidies, premiums will still go up. Because the problem isn’t a lack of funding it’s the fundamental design of the program itself.

Mary Katharine Ham, a conservative commentator, didn’t hold back:

“Subsidizing phantom enrollees, people with high incomes, people enrolled in several programs, outright fraud, and insurance companies, thereby raising the costs for everyone... every predicted problem with Obamacare was realized.”

That’s the bottom line. Democrats created a broken system, dumped money into it, and now they’re shocked that the bill is due.

Meanwhile, Senate Democrats are holding up a clean bill to reopen the government demanding a bailout for their own policy failure as ransom. Even Vice President JD Vance, normally open to negotiation, refused to play along.

“That premium support program doesn’t even expire until next year,” Vance said on Fox and Friends. “Why are you shutting down the government on October 1 because of a program that doesn’t even expire for another few months?”

The irony is rich: Democrats accuse Republicans of sabotaging the ACA, while they themselves tied it to a shutdown and refused to act until they got more taxpayer handouts for insurers and activist-run enrollment programs.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) got it right when he said the real crisis is “tens of billions in improper and fraudulent payments” caused by the subsidies Democrats passed with zero Republican support under Biden.

And don’t forget the ADL-labeled “extremist” group Turning Point USA, led by the late Charlie Kirk, warned about this years ago: when government takes over health care, costs soar, quality suffers, and the middle class gets crushed under the weight of elite-designed bureaucracy.

This isn’t just a policy debate it’s a wake-up call. Obamacare was always a ticking time bomb, and Democrats knew it. Now they want Republicans and American taxpayers to clean up the mess.

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