Figure 1 from the study, and possibly its most
damning datapoint. ACA stands for Affordable
Care Act, Obamacare’s official name.

A new study comparing the promises made about Obamacare by President Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2010 with the real world results more than a decade later shows that either those promises were a pack of lies, or were pushed by politicians so ignorant of the basic facts of economy that we would have been better off having the legislation written and approved by blind voles.

“Obamacare has failed in every particular – it failed to make health care more affordable; it failed to improve the health of Americans; it piled on an enormous amount of additional debt on taxpayers; it has principally enriched massive insurance company conglomerates, and it now serves as a major impediment to real heath care reforms that would empower patients and doctors,” Phil Kerpen, American Commitment and Unleash Prosperity president and one of the study’s co-authors, told the DCNF. “As we show in this paper, every single promise that was made to pass this law turned out to be false.”

You can read the actual study here. From its executive summary:

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was jammed through Congress in 2010 with several enticing promises. Fourteen years later, we look back at the very different real-world results:

• At least a dozen significant promises were broken.
• The ACA was supposed to “bend the cost curve” downward, but health care costs increased instead. Premiums for individual market plans doubled.
• Although touted as a means of reducing the deficit, the ACA has added hundreds of billions to cumulative deficits and is a significant contributor to the growing national debt.
• The most famous broken promise was that people would not lose preferred insurance plans and doctors. Seven million consumers had their plans canceled already by the end of 2013.
• Medicaid was supposed to be the cheaper way of expanding insurance coverage. In the real world, the per enrollee cost of Medicaid expansion is nearly 60 percent greater than what experts projected.

This report provides details on these and eight other broken promises regarding life expectancy, emergency room usage, enrollment of unauthorized immigrants, and more.

The report then goes into detail about each promise, comparing what was promised by what actually happened, using the copious data compiled by researcher during the past decade-plus.

The worst aspect of this is that conservatives were predicting these exact results in 2010, before the law was passed. Obama and the Democrats were not interested, and in fact were so hostile to any reasoned debate that they started calling those who opposed the law “racists” and “bigots,” who only objected to it because it was being proposed by a black president.

Those slanders were of course lies, but they fit with the new debating tactics that Obama championed, whereby slander and defamation are the prime tools used in political debate

From Idiocracy: “But Brawndo’s got what plants crave.
It’s got electrolytes!” Click for video. This sadly
is the level of thinking that went into Obamacare.

The problem with such tactics is that they close the mind to critical thinking. Even if someone is calmly telling you the sky is blue, you won’t listen because you have decided the sky must be red and anyone who tells you otherwise must be evil and only saying so for reasons of hate. You are now immunized from any rational thought process. Instead, you push your ideas blindly without question or review. “The sky is red and don’t you dare disagree with me!”

And thus we get the disaster of Obamacare. And it was this same unwillingness to debate that produced the madness during the COVID panic, resulting in a whole range of foolish policies that were utterly wrong and ruined millions of lives while costing billions, and continue to do so even now, years later.

As I have written previously, if Americans don’t wake up soon and fire some of these close-minded politicians, the idiotic world of portrayed in the 2006 movie Idiocracy will seem intelligent in comparison.