Trump’s HSA plan puts Democrats on the spot
Democrats initiated the longest government shutdown in history under the guise of caring about Americans’ access to affordable healthcare. Now they have an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is. The Senate will vote in mid-December on Democrats’ demand that temporary, and soon-to-expire, “enhanced” subsidies under the Affordable Care Act be made permanent. Doing this, they claim, is critical to keeping healthcare “affordable.” Who are they kidding? Healthcare is more expensive than ever. Obamacare was supposed to fix this, but failed. And Democrats’ dream of a government takeover of the entire system with “Medicare [.].