A Controlled Demolition: How Democrats Are Using the Shutdown to Bury Obamacare’s Failure

Last year, The Washington Post and other legacy outlets assured voters that the Affordable Care Act was thriving — bolstered by trillions in new taxpayer subsidies under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. But now, even the same outlets admit what critics warned from the start: the ACA “was never affordable.” Declared the Washington Post editorial board.

Behind the slogans lies a deliberate design. By inflating subsidies and forcing middle-class families into a government-dependent system, Washington has nurtured a cycle of reliance on an unworkable program. Private insurers are fleeing the market, premiums are rising again, and coverage networks continue to shrink.

It’s not a failure — it’s a plan. The ACA’s architects knew that once private insurance collapsed under the weight of federal control, politicians could point to the wreckage as proof that “only” a government-run system can save us.

As if on cue, Sen. Bernie Sanders told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins this week that America must move toward Medicare-for-All, admitting “That's what this whole shutdown is about — to protect the American people and our health care system from collapsing.”

Now that we’ve put the Unaffordable Care Act in context, it’s clear why Democrats are making their last stand — refusing to pass a seven-week continuing resolution (CR) and instead trying to pin the blame for the shutdown on Republicans. They’re not trying to fix a broken system; they’re trying to bury it.

Because the truth is, Obamacare wasn’t sabotaged from the outside. It was a controlled demolition from the start — designed to collapse private healthcare so government could rise from the rubble with single-payer as the only “solution.”