The Truth: Obamacare Is Failing and Democrats Have No Solutions 

While House Republicans work to clean up the mess left by Obamacare, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats continue to peddle the same lies.

As these members insist Obamacare is a success, Americans are seeing insurers flee the exchange and premiums skyrocket.

Now, Democrats are not only holding onto their broken mess, but are advocating for more government control through single-payer.

Despite this continued liberal obstruction, House Republicans remain committed to clean up the disaster left by Democrats.

Via CNBC:

The current fate of the Republican Obamacare replacement bill has understandably focused a lot of attention on the pros and cons of that bill and its chances of actually becoming law. But so many of the arguments for and against the bill are based on myths that endure even at the most educated levels of American political discourse. And we can’t get anywhere when it comes to improving our health care and insurance situation until we slay these myths once and for all.

Let’s focus on the top three most damaging misconceptions:

1) We can keep Obamacare as it is

Love or hate those Congressional Republicans trying to repeal the ACA, either way, the system is in deep trouble and has fallen well short of expectations. Insurers continue to bail on Obamacare exchanges, leaving several regions of the country in danger of no options. Premiums are rising to unaffordable levels, going along with the high deductibles that already made “health insurance coverage” a meaningless term to millions of Americans who had nominal coverage but could not really afford to use it.

2) The rest of the world has single payer and it works

Nope and nope. The longstanding myth that all or almost all of the industrialized world employs a single payer/government-backed health care system is just not true. The truth is that the nations that supposedly guarantee all their citizens health care all rely heavily on people who can pay out of pocket for expedited care.

3) We can and should extend Medicare for all

People who support this idea, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, are essentially making the same argument as the single payer advocates. But their decision to focus on Medicare offers a good opportunity to dispel some crucial misconceptions about the program.

First off, most people on Medicare need to also purchase supplemental insurance.

Second, Medicare is not the efficient and wonderful program so many politicians from both parties seem to think it is. For years, Medicare advocates have pushed out the incredible statistic that its administrative costs are just 3 percent of total costs, compared to 15 to 20 percent for private insurance. Ridiculous.