In a recent Kaiser Health News / USA Today article, economist Elise Gould from the Economic Policy Institute is quoted as saying, “I would like to live in a world where people didn’t have to trade off health care versus putting food on the table.”
More and more middle class families are finding out that they’ve been tricked. Yes, they were lied to. And it’s not the “If you like your healthcare, you can keep it” line (though that was definitely a lie). It’s bigger that that. It’s that the Affordable Care Act isn’t actually, well, affordable.
So, it’s worth asking, how did we get here? Well, as Julie Appleby writes for Kaiser Health News, it’s simple: “The primary goal was to get the bill passed, not figure out what struggling middle-class families thought they could afford.”
And therein we find the biggest lie of all: Liberals aren’t helping the middle-class. It’s evidenced in slow economic growth, in 3.2 million long-term unemployed, and in poll after poll that shows that American’s are unimpressed with the President’s liberal agenda.
Conservatives must step up and offer real solutions that strengthen America’s middle-class, and helps them get back to a world where “people didn’t have to trade off health care versus putting food on the table.”
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