{"id":2511188,"date":"2025-11-16T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jenny-beth-martin-conservatives-were-right-about-obamacare-all-along\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:22:27","slug":"jenny-beth-martin-conservatives-were-right-about-obamacare-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jenny-beth-martin-conservatives-were-right-about-obamacare-all-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Beth Martin: Conservatives Were Right About Obamacare All Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjenny-beth-martin-conservatives-were-right-about-obamacare-all-along%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2511188&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article argues that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was fundamentally flawed from the start, designed more to expand coverage than to control costs, leading to rising premiums, shrinking coverage, and increasing government subsidies. Conservatives claim they were proven right in criticizing the law&#8217;s sustainability, as Democrats now openly admit the system requires ongoing bailouts to prevent collapse. The piece highlights that Obamacare&#8217;s promises-such as keeping existing plans and reducing costs-failed,and that the current system depends on continued subsidies,which create distortions and disincentives,including employers dropping coverage. The author calls for ending these bailouts and pursuing true reform focused on restoring competition, reducing regulatory burdens, empowering doctor-patient relationships, and embracing free-market solutions like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">health savings accounts<\/a>, interstate insurance competition, and clarity. Ultimately, the article urges moving away from government dependency toward a healthcare model based on market principles, asserting that Obamacare was never truly affordable and was destined to fail.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>With this week&rsquo;s Senate agreement &ndash; in which eight Senate Democrats traded their votes to reopen the government for a promise of a vote on extending Obamacare subsidies &ndash; the discussion now turns to health care, about which, let me say this: We conservatives were right all along.<\/p>\n<p>The law known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act &mdash; better known as &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-outlines-plan-replace-obamacare-scam-money-go-directly-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obamacare<\/a>&rdquo; &mdash; was never truly affordable, and it isn&rsquo;t affordable now. Designed to expand coverage rather than to control costs, it was built with structural flaws that guaranteed it would buckle under its own weight. That was the plan all along, and what we are witnessing now is not reform so much as rescue.<\/p>\n<p>From its inception, Obamacare promised that Americans could keep their doctors, and their existing plans, and that premiums and deductibles would fall. The reality: premiums soared, insurance retreated from many markets, and the federal government stepped in to prop up the system. All those subsidies, mandates, and regulatory impositions were not the prelude to a robust market, they were the scaffolding of a system designed to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after 15 years of shrinking coverage and rising costs, Democrats are finally coming clean &mdash; or at least overt. They want a bailout. They press for yet another extension of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiana-lowe-doescher-projects-shutdown-layoffs-to-be-good-threat-to-democrats-in-deadlock\/\" title=\"Tiana Lowe Doescher projects shutdown layoffs to be \u2018good threat\u2019 to ... in deadlock\">enhanced premium tax credits<\/a>, and for 40 days they were willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/senate-clears-bill-end-41-day-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down<\/a> the government to get it. The writing is on the wall: when the architects of a law say, &ldquo;We must keep subsidizing to prevent collapse,&rdquo; they&rsquo;re admitting the system they erected cannot stand on its own two feet.<\/p>\n<p>Former Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-breaking-nancy-pelosi-announces-her-retirement-after-nearly-40-years-in-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> &mdash; who did more than anyone else to push the law to passage &mdash; clearly recognizes it&rsquo;s time to get out while the getting is still good. Much better to announce her retirement now than to stick around to be held accountable for the failure of the system that she built.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));         expires=\"; expires=\" + date.toUTCString();     }     document.cookie=name + \"=\" + (value || \"\")  + expires + \"; path=\/\"; }  \/\/ Helper function to get a cookie function getVideoCookie(name) {     var nameEQ=name + \"=\";     var ca=document.cookie.split(';');     for(var i=0; i <ca.length; i++) {         var c=ca[i];         while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c=c.substring(1,c.length);         if (c.indexOf(nameEQ)==0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);     }     return null; }  \/\/ Function to determine or retrieve the split test group function assignSplitTestGroup() {     var group=getVideoCookie('splitTestGroup'); 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        }          \/\/ Add custom styles for STN player         const style=document.createElement('style');         style.textContent=`         #videoPlayer {             min-height: 460px;             margin-bottom: 10px;         }         @media only screen and (max-width: 780px) {             #videoPlayer {                 min-height: 200px;             }         }         `;         document.head.appendChild(style);          \/\/ Add needed div for STN player         const stnDiv=document.createElement(\"div\");         \/\/ add data-stn-player attribute         stnDiv.setAttribute(\"data-stn-player\", \"s28Az7AY\");         document.getElementById(\"videoPlayer\").appendChild(stnDiv);           \/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #videoPlayer and observe it         let paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#videoPlayer\", 2);         observeElement(paragraphToObserve);     }); }  \/\/ Assign user to a group window.adUserGroup=assignSplitTestGroup(); let isSubbed=getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ); 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After years of telling Americans, &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll save money,&rdquo; &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll keep your plan,&rdquo; &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll reduce premiums,&rdquo; the party of government-managed health care is now saying, &ldquo;Fine. We&rsquo;ll keep paying. Don&rsquo;t ask how.&rdquo; The subtext: Yes, we meant you to rely on us all along.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the latest data:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/obamacare-prices-set-spike-heres-why?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">one analysis<\/a> found that insurance premiums on the Obamacare exchanges are set to rise by 26 percent on average in 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/paragoninstitute.org\/private-health\/problems-with-aca-subsidies-compounded-by-covid-credits-unfair-to-americans-with-employer-based-insurance-punish-work-and-incentivize-employers-to-drop-coverage\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Another found<\/a> that the subsidies have created perverse incentives and inequities &mdash; &ldquo;creating large incentives for employers&hellip; to stop offering coverage.&rdquo; The result? A system that can only stay afloat by keeping the subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>It was always designed to fail. Call it gentle cynicism if you like &mdash; after all, the pitch included &ldquo;Affordable&rdquo; in its name &mdash; but the reality was that the system the law built never had enough enrollees, never had enough incentive for younger, healthier people, and never had enough cost-control mechanisms to fundamentally change what had long driven healthcare inflation. When you regulate insurance more, mandate more, and promise more subsidies, you drop your guardrail: competition. And once competition dies, cost control dies, too.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Democrats advance not reform but rescue: &ldquo;We must preserve the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/health-care-premiums-for-families-increase-nearly-50-in-one-decade\/\" title=\"... Premiums For Families Increase Nearly 50% In One Decade\">enhanced tax credits<\/a> to avoid chaos,&rdquo; they say. But the chaos is baked in. If insurers cannot price rationally because of regulation and subsidy distortions, and if older or sicker cohorts dominate the risk pool without offsetting younger, healthier ones, then premiums will climb &mdash; and the only lever left is more government money and more bailouts. The question becomes: when do we ask &ldquo;Enough&rdquo;?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is: now. In the coming weeks, as a result of the deal struck in the Senate on Sunday, the Senate will consider various options for reforming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-gop-wins-shutdown-showdown-enough-democrats-defect-re-open-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obamacare<\/a>. Instead of throwing good money after bad, we need to come to terms with the problems Obamacare created and chart a different path. The different path puts competition back in the insurance market; it loosens regulatory burdens; it empowers the doctor-patient relationship rather than the bureaucrat-insurer axis; and it invites free-market solutions that reduce cost and raise value.<\/p>\n<p>We do not need to pretend that more subsidies will fix the structural flaw. We do not need to prop up a system that was rigged for collapse. We need to welcome innovation: high-deductible plans, health savings account enhancements, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >direct-primary-care models<\/a>, interstate competition for health plans, transparency in pricing, and sensible tort reform. These are market-first solutions that conservatives have long advocated.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Democrats deserve a reluctant &ldquo;thank you&rdquo; for this moment of clarity. After years of insisting the law was self-sustaining and cost-saving, they are now demanding a lifeline. It&rsquo;s not exactly the &ldquo;we can afford this&rdquo; message many expected, but it is honest.<\/p>\n<p>If we let the government become the &nbsp;insurer of last resort, we guarantee a system that erodes choice, escalates costs, reduces the quality of care, weakens doctors&rsquo; autonomy, and ultimately burdens taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>The time has come to say: No more bailouts. Let the system evolve or dissolve. And let the next stage be built on competition, patient empowerment, and cost control &mdash; not more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/marjorie-taylor-greene-breaks-fellow-republicans-obamacare-tax-credits-carving-lane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largesse<\/a> disguised as affordability.<\/p>\n<p>We conservatives were right all along. Obamacare was never affordable. It was built to fail so we would end up with government solutions. That endgame is here. Let&rsquo;s choose a genuine new beginning instead.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jenny Beth Martin is Honorary Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter&rsquo;s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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