In 2022, Democrats extended billions in ACA subsidies through the Inflation Reduction Act—money meant to keep coverage affordable post-COVID. The catch? A hard sunset at the end of 2025. Now, that expiration was the core of the government shutdown. Lawmakers held the entire federal government hostage—not over border security, not over spending caps, but over whether to keep sending your tax dollars straight to insurance companies.
With weak oversight, ACA enrollment exploded. It is ripe with fraud – and full of enrollees who didn’t need the plans in the first place. Other patients found themselves enrolled in plans they never signed up for. Insurers collected billions anyway. And taxpayers paid the bill.
That isn’t a mistake. It’s the system working exactly as designed: middlemen first,

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