Obamacare And The Healthcare System’s Dirty Little Secret

DAILY CALLER

No one likes insurance companies (trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog’s clenched teeth), and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 trillion hole in the federal budget is the health insurance lobby.

The giant insurance companies — including UnitedHealth, Blue Cross, and Humana — are leading what Capitol Hill sources describe as “an unprecedented lobbying blitz to restore hundreds of billions in taxpayer-funded Obamacare and Medicare Advantage subsidies.”

This isn’t to help seniors or poor households.  Brian Blase, a longtime health care expert who worked in the Trump White House, calculates that most of the reimbursement money wouldn’t financially benefit patients. The premium subsidies would mostly go straight into the bank accounts of the mega insurers.

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