IN CASE YOU MISSED IT… Sen. Rick Scott in the Wall Street Journal: Democrats Keep Shoveling Money at ObamaCare

It wasn't supposed to cost hundreds of billions of tax dollars a year to make healthcare 'affordable.'

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on how Democrats' government shutdown demands of massive taxpayer-funded checks to insurance companies shows just how far they're willing to go to mask the true costs of Obamacare, which has completely failed, ruining the nation's health insurance system and leaving Americans paying more with less choice. Senator Scott notes it's time to fix this broken system - lowering costs, stopping fraud, and giving Americans more choice - to actually help Americans get accessible, affordable health care.

In the op-ed, Senator Rick Scott writes, "Congressional Democrats have said the quiet part out loud: They want the federal government to keep cutting massive checks to insurance companies forever, using your tax dollars to shore up the sinking ship of ObamaCare. They've even shut down the government to demand it.

'ObamaCare didn't deliver on its promise of healthcare affordability and stability. President Obama's promise that "if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it" was proved to be a lie by 2013. His promise to bring down healthcare costs-with savings of $2,500 a year for every American family and $200 billion for the federal government-was no more truthful.

'To keep ObamaCare afloat, the federal government has propped it up with hundreds of billions of dollars in handouts directly to the insurance industry while failing to lower costs. These handouts lacked any accountability or eligibility requirements, opening them up to fraud, waste and mass confusion that lined the pockets of insurance companies and brokers, and failing Americans who need help. The whole system is misconceived-but Washington has done its best to hide that from the American people.…"

Read the full op-ed in the Wall Street Journal HERE.

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