Bill Clinton Leads Democrat Panic over Obamacare Collapse

Faced with an election-year albatross, Democrats may finally be admitting that the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, stinks.

And the leader of this pack of sudden skeptics is none other than former President Bill Clinton.

“The people … out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their [Obamacare] premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”

Yesterday, in Michigan, Bill Clinton told voters that the legislation has created a “crazy system” where millions more people have health care but those unable to qualify for subsidies are getting “killed,” according to Fox News.

“The people … out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half,” said Bill Clinton said. “It’s the craziest thing in the world.”

GOP nominee Donald Trump’s campaign hopped on the reversal.

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“With premiums continuing to skyrocket, state insurance markets collapsing, and businesses struggling to comply with its job-killing mandates, even Democrats like Bill Clinton are coming to realize just what bad public policy Obamacare really is,” Jason Miller, senior communications adviser for the Trump campaign said in a statement.

“Unfortunately for the millions of Americans struggling with higher health care costs, all Hillary Clinton is proposing to do is double down on this failed law and reheat unrealistic proposals that were too liberal to pass when Democrats held a filibuster-proof Senate majority.”

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Obamacare once again faces fresh criticism after its disastrous 2013 rollout.

The federal program canceled tens of thousands of private health insurance programs that people already had. Then major health insurance companies such as Aetna, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare dropped out of the system in many areas.

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In Tennessee, the Chattanooga Times-Free Press reports that after losing nearly $500 million on its individual health plans offered through the Affordable Care Act over the past three years, Blue Cross — Tennessee’s biggest health insurer — is “scaling back its participation in the so-called Obamacare program, even after regulators granted the company a record 62-percent rate hike for next year.”

The news forces 112,000 customers to scramble to find new health insurance.

Now, the Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman has said that individual market plans could raise rates as high as 67 percent next year, according to Fox News. The jump in cost follows this year’s hike of 14 percent to 49 percent.

Rothman, who serves in a Democratic administration, said middle-class residents are getting “crushed” and, according to Fox News, called for urgent reforms in the state’s individual market.