Dec. 22, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: Enterprise columnist Michael Hiltzik claims that Republicans have tried to kill Obamacare “with out providing a cogent reason” (“Republicans don’t have a healthcare plan, just a plan to kill Obamacare,” Dec. 17). However guess what? The calls for to subsidize skyrocketing premiums are de facto proof that Obamacare has failed. What extra do we have to declare it unaffordable and in want of radical revision or alternative?
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 prolonged subsidies via 2025, expiring now. Cries to spend billions extra to maintain Obamacare alive show that going ahead is unsustainable. The previous saying “good cash after unhealthy” has by no means been extra related.
When an goal, nonpartisan, fact-based analysis of the way forward for funding Obamacare is finished, there will be no stronger case for “killing” it than the present disaster. The column cherry-picks a couple of information and research that will excuse the lead-up to its present demise, with no point out of different proposals.
Hiltzik ignores the tens of billions of dollars the feds pay to allow the state applications. California’s Medicaid program has been challenged with recent high-profile cuts to its federal funding. Underlying these omissions, he presents no answer for the individuals who will “vote with their toes” when insurance coverage premium shock arrives.
Raymond Roth, Oceanside
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To the editor: From the very outset, the ACA was a good suggestion however poorly designed and completely underfunded.
Sadly, the legislative department of our authorities doesn’t appear to care, and the Los Angeles Occasions would seemingly relatively bash Republicans than supply options to the issue.
If we’re going to be sincere, we have to admit that our total healthcare system is poorly designed and underfunded. For years, the annual report of the Social Safety and Medicare Trustees has really helpful that “the lawmakers handle the projected belief fund shortfalls in a well timed manner so as to section in obligatory adjustments progressively and provides staff and beneficiaries time to regulate to them.” Perhaps, if members of Congress had the identical healthcare as the remainder of us, they might contemplate this a extra pressing drawback.
Till Congress decides to face the totality of our healthcare system, I’ve little to no hope.
Kevin Minihan, Westchester
