Florida Conservative

When the House voted to resurrect Affordable Care Act premium subsidies for another three years, the headline was deceptively simple: twenty-two million Americans would be shielded from steep premium hikes, four million more would gain coverage, and the federal government would spend another $80 billion to make it all happen.

For decades, the American healthcare system has wrestled with skyrocketing costs, bureaucratic red tape, and increasingly impersonal care