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GOP attack on Obamacare:
The Worst is yet to come

Since the Affordable Care Act’s enactment in 2010, the Republican mantra about the law has been “repeal and replace.”
On the surface, the GOP never got what it wanted.
The key moment in this campaign arrived in July 2017, when the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) stood on the Senate floor and issued a thumbs-down gesture to kill repeal.
But that’s misleading.
🔥The latest statistics on Obamacare enrollments and pricing show that for millions of Americans, repeal indeed has happened.
The expiration of enhanced ACA subsidies as of Jan. 1 prompted millions of Americans to either give up their Obamacare health plans or shift to plan levels with lower premiums but higher co-pays and deductibles.

Although official statistics for the 2026 plan year are not yet complete, expectations are that the number of enrollees could fall to as few as 16.5 million.
That would be a decline of more than 26% from the 22.3 million beneficiaries last year,
and the first such decline since the ACA marketplaces opened in 2014.
The scale of the decline is still unclear, because people’s abandonment of ACA plans isn’t final until they fail to pay their first-month premiums,
and statistics on that trend aren’t yet fully available.
❌What has happened, however, is that average premiums have increased by 58% nationwide this year,
rising to $178 per month from $113, according to the healthcare research organization KFF.
Average deductibles rose by 37%, or by $1,027 per person, KFF calculated, reaching a record high of $3,786.
That’s “the steepest increase in deductibles ever seen in this market,” KFF reported.
The underlying cause was the shift by enrollees from silver-level plans with relatively low deductibles to bronze plans
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