Medical Xpress December 15, 2025
In a recent “Meet the Press” appearance, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., joined a growing number of Republicans who are speaking out against Obamacare. One of his lines of attack: that the Affordable Care Act fueled health care consolidation.
“What Democrats did 15 years ago was they radically changed all health care in America. They moved all physicians under hospitals. They changed all the reimbursement programs. They shifted everything in,” Lankford said Nov. 9.
This is one of a collection of Republican talking points related to the ACA that’s been regularly reprised, and there’s a reason for it.
Democrats have been promised a Senate vote this month on whether to extend the ACA’s enhanced subsidies, set to expire at year’s end....
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