Enriching hospitals at taxpayer expense

We recently endured the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown as part of a fight over expiring healthcare tax credits. Democrats insist that Americans can’t afford Obamacare plans without the enhanced subsidies that were temporarily added post-COVID, which certainly raises questions about the efficacy of their Affordable Care Act. On top of proving a massive waste of time, the shutdown fight represented a misdirection of lawmaker energy. Rather than debating whether to paper over the healthcare affordability problem with yet another layer of subsidies, Congress instead should focus on finding cost-savings common ground like eliminating the abuse of the 340B drug discount...