Republicans have finally found their new answer to Obamacare.
After the GOP failed to successfully replace Democrats’ signature 2010 health care reform during the Trump administration, a renaissance in nutrition has catalyzed a new political movement finding a home on the right. A Senate roundtable on Monday led by Sen. Ron Johnson was the latest evidence of that transformation within a party that has been damaged by its seeming lack of a presentable alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
“America’s national health is not good,” opened the Republican senator from Wisconsin, “even though America’s health care system spent $4.5 trillion dollars in 2022, or over $13,000 per person.”
To put those numbers in perspective, American health care spending was just 5 percent of GDP when John F. Kennedy was president. That number soared to more than 17 percent in 2022, just a year before Kennedy’s nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would launch his own White House run.
“If America fails,” Kennedy said at the Monday panel, “the chief reason will be because we let our country get sicker, more depressed, fatter, more infertile at an increasing rate while crippling our national security, bankrupting our national budget with health care costs.”
“Every major pillar of the U.S. health care system as a statement of economic fact,” Kennedy added, “makes money when Americans get sick.”
Obama’s Boondoggle
Kennedy went on to highlight Obamacare’s failure to fundamentally reform the health care system that in reality was a sick care system.
“Obamacare actually incentivized
