Cooper’s Healthcare Promises Ring Hollow After Democrats’ Failed Obamacare Experiment
Roy Cooper just admitted what Republicans have been saying for over a decade: Obamacare is collapsing under its own weight, crushing middle-class families with unaffordable premiums and skyrocketing deductibles.
The Democratic U.S. Senate nominee and former North Carolina Governor made the stunning concession during election coverage this week, acknowledging that “we’ve lost so many people on the Affordable Care Act who can no longer afford it.” This isn’t news to conservatives who warned from day one that Democrats’ massive government takeover of healthcare would end in disaster.
Cooper’s proposed solution? More government subsidies and another bureaucratic “make stuff cost less tour” filled with empty promises. It’s the same tired playbook Democrats always use: create a problem with big government, then demand even bigger government to fix it.
The Obamacare Disaster Democrats Created
The numbers don’t lie. Since the Affordable Care Act’s implementation, Americans have watched their healthcare premiums double and triple while deductibles climbed so high that insurance became essentially unusable for millions of working families. Cooper himself admits people “are having to pay more for policies with higher deductibles”—yet he’s running as the party responsible for this mess.
This is the fundamental dishonesty of Democratic healthcare policy. They broke the system, and now they want credit for proposing to fix what they destroyed.
Blaming Insurance Companies: The Ultimate Dodge
Cooper’s rhetoric about “fighting the insurance companies” is pure political theater. Who created the regulatory framework that allowed insurance companies to raise prices without competition? Democrats. Who mandated expensive coverage requirements that drove up premiums? Democrats. Who eliminated consumer choice and free-market solutions? Democrats.
The insurance industry didn’t operate in a vacuum. They navigated the labyrinth of Obamacare regulations that Democrats crafted behind closed doors without a single Republican vote. Blaming insurance companies now is like an arsonist complaining about the fire.
Washington IS Making Costs Go Up—Cooper’s Party Led the Way
Cooper claims “everything Washington is doing is making costs go up for North Carolinians instead of working for them to go down.” He’s absolutely right about one thing: Washington is making costs explode. But let’s be crystal clear about who controlled Washington when healthcare costs spiraled out of control.
Democrats rammed through Obamacare. Democrats promised families would save $2,500 per year—a brazen lie. Democrats promised “if you like your plan, you can keep it”—named Lie of the Year. Democrats own this disaster from top to bottom.
The “Make Stuff Cost Less Tour” Smokescreen
Cooper announced he’s launching a “make stuff cost less tour” starting tomorrow, promising to roll out “policy ideas” about what Washington can do to reduce costs. Translation: more government intervention, more mandates, more subsidies funded by taxpayers, and more control over your healthcare decisions.
Real cost reduction comes from unleashing competition, expanding consumer choice, and removing government barriers—not adding layers of subsidies that mask the underlying dysfunction. Republicans have offered market-based solutions for years: allowing insurance purchases across state lines, expanding Health Savings Accounts, promoting price transparency, and reducing burdensome regulations.
Democrats blocked these reforms at every turn, preferring government control to individual freedom.
Subsidies Aren’t Solutions—They’re Band-Aids on a Bullet Wound
Cooper’s call to restore subsidies fundamentally misunderstands the problem. Subsidies don’t reduce costs—they simply shift who pays them. When government subsidizes healthcare, taxpayers foot the bill while the underlying cost drivers remain untouched.
It’s economic malpractice disguised as compassion. The Affordable Care Act hasn’t made healthcare more affordable; it’s made it more expensive while hiding some of those costs through subsidies and taxes. North Carolinians aren’t fooled.
North Carolina Deserves Better Than Failed Democratic Policies
Cooper promises to talk about healthcare “next week.” North Carolinians have been waiting over a decade for Democrats to deliver on their healthcare promises. They’re still waiting for those $2,500 savings. They’re still waiting for costs to go down. They’re still waiting for better coverage.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Sending another Democrat to Washington to expand the failed Obamacare experiment would be political insanity.
North Carolina needs leaders who will champion free-market healthcare solutions, not politicians peddling the same government programs that created this crisis. Cooper’s admission that Obamacare has failed should disqualify his party’s approach, not serve as a launching pad for more government control.
The Choice Is Clear
This election presents North Carolinians with a fundamental choice: continue down the path of government-controlled healthcare that has demonstrably failed, or embrace market-based reforms that empower patients and reduce costs through competition.
Cooper’s candidacy represents more of the same—more subsidies, more regulations, more government intervention, and inevitably, higher costs hidden behind accounting gimmicks and taxpayer-funded band-aids.
Republicans have a proven prescription for healthcare reform: increase competition, expand choice, reduce mandates, and get government out of the way. It’s time to let the free market work instead of doubling down on failure.
North Carolinians deserve healthcare solutions that actually work, not another politician’s tour bus filled with recycled promises and discredited ideas.
