Health insurance didn’t suddenly become unaffordable.

The Affordable Care Act slowed premium growth when its guardrails were enforced. But those guardrails were weakened, consolidation ran unchecked, and subsidies only delayed the inevitable.

This is why the current spike was always coming — and why Medicare for All is the only healthcare system that can survive partisan politics.

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