Rep. Thomas Massie says the quiet part out loud: Obamacare might as well be called "Trumpcare" now, because Republicans have zero intention of repealing it — and the American people are the ones getting stuck with the bill.
"Might as well call it Trumpcare now. Our party has made no serious effort to repeal Obamacare and legalize affordable health insurance after taking control of the House, Senate & White House," the Kentucky Republican wrote on X Wednesday.
Why it matters: Republicans have held the House, Senate, and White House and still won't deliver on a decade-old promise. Massie answered his own question: "Because the current system enriches insurance and hospital companies." There's your uniparty in one sentence. The same cartel that wrote Obamacare profits off its survival, and GOP leadership has no intention of killing the goose that lays their campaign contributions.
When a user asked how anything could get done without votes, Massie pointed the finger directly at the top of the ticket: the president, he wrote, "has endorsed literally every Republican who wants to keep Obamacare."
That's the trap the editor flagged, and Massie walked right into the middle of it. If Trump embraces the system rather than dismantling it, the establishment wins twice: they keep socialized medicine's control over your healthcare, and when the inevitable collapse comes, they hang it around a Republican president's neck. The left keeps the structure. The right gets the blame. And the insurance conglomerates keep cashing checks.
Fox News noted that the Trump administration has cracked down on an estimated $10 billion in Obamacare fraud and removed millions from the rolls. That's enforcement, not repeal. Trimming the weeds isn't pulling them out by the root.
Massie lost his primary in May to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL. The congressman's punishment for refusing to fall in line was a primary challenge backed by the full weight of the party apparatus. That's how the uniparty enforces discipline: step off the reservation, lose your seat.
The question isn't whether Massie is right — the record speaks for itself. The question is whether any Republican with power will actually fight for the repeal they've been promising since 2010, or whether "Trumpcare" is the label that sticks when voters realize nothing changed.
