The Obamacare Proponents Who Cried Wolf

It has become a welfare program for health insurers and people who should have the means to purchase insurance on their own.

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Rep. Lauren Underwood (D., Ill.) questions Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on the DHS budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2024.

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Democrats just unveiled legislation that would make permanent the generous pandemic-era subsidies for health insurance sold through Obamacare’s exchanges.

Illinois representative Lauren Underwood (D.), the bill’s lead sponsor in the House of Representatives, said that extending the subsidies beyond their scheduled expiration at the end of next year would mean the “difference between families having coverage and going without it.”

Sally C. Pipes

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Sally C. Pipes

Sally C. Pipes is president, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute. Her latest book is The World’s Medicine Chest: How America Achieved Pharmaceutical Supremacy — and How to Keep It (Encounter 2025). Follow her on X @sallypipes.

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