Congress should consider healthcare reform

Health care has become a major policy issue in Congress. The recent government shutdown was caused by the minority party insisting on extending the deadline for the COVID-era, generous taxpayer subsidies in the Obamacare exchanges. That was in spite of the fact that when in the majority, they were the ones who set the deadline for Dec. 31.

Obamacare has been an abject failure. It has not provided universal health insurance coverage as was promised, nor has it controlled the ever-rising cost of health care.

All Americans, except for people in the Medicaid entitlement, have seen their health car...