Tammy Baldwin: I Had the Honor of Doubling Health Insurance Costs
The radical senator from Wisconsin proudly touts crafting Obamacare that has made health care much less affordable and accessible to millions.
The Affordable Care Act became law nearly 15 years ago, just a fraction of time in career politician Tammy Baldwin’s 38 years of leeching off the taxpayer. In that time, healthcare got far less affordable and Baldwin deserves some credit for that.
In her Senate debate with GOP challenger Eric Hovde in October, Baldwin bragged about her role in drafting the ACA: “I had the honor of serving on a panel when I was in the House of Representatives that wrote the Affordable Care Act.” If she wants praise for writing the bill that gave us Obamacare, then she must receive blame for its failures too.
A 2021 study from the Heritage Foundation found the national average annual monthly premium in the individual market more than doubled—up 129%—from the final pre-ACA year of 2013. That’s just in six years, to 2019. In Baldwin’s Wisconsin, the effect was even worse with individual plans increasing 151%. The large-group employer market, exempt from most of the ACA’s new regulations, only saw premiums rise 29% over that same period. Predictably, government interference made things worse.
Health care costs as a percentage of income have also skyrocketed since the passage of the Baldwin-authored Affordable Care Act. Premiums and deductibles on employer-sponsored coverage comprised 11.6% of the median income in 2020, skyrocketing up 9.1% from 2010. Over this same period, the number of states where these costs ate up 10% of income jumped from 10 to 37 states.
No wallet is safe with Senator Tammy Baldwin in Washington, D.C.
Support for price-increasing legislation is a feature, not a bug with Tammy Baldwin. She voted for the $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan Act which economists concluded worsened inflation, expanded government, and wasted taxpayer money—$1.5 million for a bridge to Canada and $50 million “family planning” to Democrat allies like Planned Parenthood, for instance. She influenced Joe Biden’s economic plans which have left Americans struggling with rising costs . Groceries cost 21% more, energy is up 38.4%, and 40% of seniors have considered reentering the workforce to keep up with Baldwin and Biden’s policies.
Baldwin had the self-described honor of penning the price-hiking Affordable Care Act. Wisconsin should honor her with retirement.
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