Fri Mar 11, 2022 – 10:49 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Democrats in the U.S. Senate, Congress, and the Biden Administration are taking steps to get more Americans into government-sanctioned health care: namely Affordable Care Act (ACA) Obamacare plans and Medicaid through expansion.
As more Americans gravitate to such plans, the more pressure it puts on the private market which can offer more personalized health coverage.
Politics has been an obstacle to health care reform, says Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX).
“Politicians and bureaucrats have diminished Americans’ health care freedom, and for stupid reasons: enriching insurance companies and empowering bureaucrats to control the health care industry, all for political gain,” said Roy.
With control of Congress and the White House, Democrats tried to push through an ambitious plan, including price restraints on prescription drugs and beefing up Obamacare, in their $2 trillion social spending bill. The party’s thin majority in the Senate failed to get the package across the finish line.
In 2017, Republicans were in control and failed to come up with an Obamacare replacement. Gearing up for a possible takeover of Congress, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has set up a “Healthy Future” task force in
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