Biden Doubles Down on Obamacare’s Broken Promises

By David Balat of the Texas Public Policy Foundation

When the dust had settled in the Democratic presidential nomination contest of 2020, the last remaining defender of the Affordable Care Act, Joe Biden, had won. And though his more progressive opponents had succeeded in pushing Biden toward expanding Medicare, his policy goal remains to “protect and build on” the ACA.

What the other Democratic candidates agreed upon, though, was that the ACA was a massive failure—that’s why nearly all pushed for some form of Medicare-for-All.

 And they were right—at least in the diagnosis, if not the prescription. The ACA was never really health reform; it was only ever health insurance reform. And in its sweeping, arbitrary and haphazard way, it failed to live up to the promises Democrats—led by President Obama—made to the American people.

Here’s how. First, President Obama solemnly pledged to the American people—the vast majority of whom were happy with their own health care and insurance—that they could keep their health care plans. According to PolitiFact, he and members of his administration made that promise no less than 37 times.CARTOONS | AF Branco View Cartoon

“If you like the plan you have, you can keep it,” he said in his June 6, 2008 weekly radio address. “If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too.  The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold.”

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