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The Senate’s refusal this week to green-light Democrats’ plan to extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies was a long-overdue dose of common sense. Rather than write another blank check to a broken system, Republicans held their ground against a spending spree that would have rewarded waste and invited more fraud.
Both the Democratic three-year extension and the GOP alternative failed in dueling votes, underscoring that neither side offered a sensible, honest solution to America’s healthcare mess. The votes were essentially 51-48, and the partisan theater on display only proved that Washington prefers optics over reforms that would actually lower costs for working families.
On my side of the aisle, voices like Sen. Ron Johnson made the right argument: you can’t keep pouring taxpayer dollars into an exchange system riddled with verification failures and systemic abuse. The GAO probe that exposed how easily bad actors can sign up and collect subsidies makes clear this was not a time to extend the gravy train to insurance companies and bureaucrats.
Let’s be blunt: Obamacare was sold to the American people on a series of comforting lies, and too many in Washington still cling to its failed promise because it benefits powerful interests. Democrats want to paper over failure with more spending, while conservatives insist on accountability, citizenship verification, and market-driven alternatives that restore patient choice and lower premiums.
Millions now face the real prospect of steep premium hikes starting January 1, 2026 — and that’s the consequence of a failure of leadership, not of conservative principle. If Democrats were serious about helping Americans they would have negotiated real reforms months ago instead of staging votes they knew would fail.
This moment gives conservatives the leverage to push for real fixes: portability, health savings account expansion, tort reform, and state-led innovation that puts patients — not politicians or insurers — in charge. We should use this crisis to roll back the administrative overreach that enabled the fraud and to insist on fiscal responsibility for the sake of our grandchildren’s future.
Chris Salcedo and others on the right were right to call out the dishonesty and the destructive legacy of Obamacare, and this vote proves that standing for principle matters. The American people deserve leadership that tells the truth, fights the waste, and rewrites the health care playbook in favor of freedom and prosperity rather than government dependence.
