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Hello John,

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I want to share with you my latest op-ed
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which has been published in newspapers across the country.

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It makes the case that it would be a huge mistake for Republicans to even
consider expanding Obamacare in exchange for reopening the government.

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I wrote:

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The shutdown is a tactic employed by the Democratic congressional leadership
to create a high-profile platform from which to oppose President Trump. More
dangerously, it’s a political trap for the GOP, aimed at influencing next
year’s elections.

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This makes it troubling that some Republicans are reportedly discussing a
possible “compromise” with senior Democrats, in which they would agree to
expand Obamacare in exchange for reopening the government.

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That would be a mistake.

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Here is what the Democrats demand in exchange for reopening the government for
just a few weeks:

* They want Republicans to accept a total of $1.5 trillion in additional
health care spending, including $900 billion to repeal President Trump’s
Medicaid reforms that tackle waste, fraud, and abuse — and provisions to
prevent undocumented immigrants from getting government health care.
* Democrats also want $400 billion to extend the so-called “Biden Covid
credits.” Created as a pandemic response measure in 2021, with zero Republican
support, the additional credits were always supposed to be temporary. They
expire at the end of the year.
The credits did two things: created zero-dollar plans (free coverage for
individuals earning under $23,475 or families of four under $48,225) and
extended subsidies to higher-income earners who previously didn’t qualify for
assistance.

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These changes roughly doubled Obamacare enrollment at an added cost of $35
billion annually,every cent of which goes directly to insurers.

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Here’s the bottom line: The credits should expire. The pandemic has passed,
and the subsidies are costly, inflationary, and fraud-prone. The extra funds
have fueled enrollment fraud, higher health care prices, and insurer profits.

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But here’s the problem: Some Republicans argue that keeping the credits is
essential to retain GOP control of Congress, but that defies common sense and
would betray Trump’s 2024 mandate to end Biden-era policies.

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No Republican has ever backed Obamacare. Doing so now would make the party
complicit in its flaws: steep out-of-pocket costs, limited access to providers,
and sharply rising claim denials.

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The poorly designed program was faltering before Joe Biden’s lavish credits
reversed declining enrollment. This created the illusion of success and invited
widespread enrollment fraud, including adding an estimated 12 million phantom
enrollees (people who never go to the doctor, and may not even know they’re
enrolled).

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Letting these wasteful Covid subsidies expire would simply revert to the
Obamacare subsidy levels that existed before Covid.

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To hear the Democrats tell it — the same people who created Obamacare — that
would be a catastrophe, with soaring premiums and mass coverage losses.

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Fears of exploding premiums are overstated. Subsidies that mask average
$27,000 premiums would shrink slightly but would still cover roughly 80% of the
cost, with the lowest-income enrollees paying only a bit more — about a dollar
or two per day. While some may drop coverage rather than pay a little more,
many have other subsidized options like employer plans or Medicaid.

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Letting the extra subsidies expire is not a “catastrophe,” it’s common sense.
Making them permanent, as Democratic leaders are demanding, would amount to a
massive and costly bailout of a program that has failed by every measure.

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The bottom line is that what the Democrats are up to isn’t about improving
Obamacare.It’s a trap to push Republicans into endorsing it — and then using
that vote to retake Congress.

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🔎 Go deeper

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Republicans need to stay strong and say “No” to extending Joe Biden’s Covid
handouts.So please, give the op-ed a read and share it with your friends.
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🖊️ Take action

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And then please sign our petition
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to let Washington know that you oppose extending Joe Biden’s inflated
Obamacare subsidies!


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Thank you for all you do!

-Dean

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Dean Clancy
Senior Health Policy Fellow
Americans for Prosperity






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