Back in 2008, then-Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama bemoaned the high cost of healthcare and health insurance premiums. Indeed, Obama’s selling point for what would become his signature policy, the falsely named Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, was that it would reduce a family’s health insurance premiums by an average of $2,500 annually.

According to Obama, this $2,500 was just the initial “savings” in what would become his plan to make healthcare more affordable for Americans.

Not a single Republican lawmaker voted for ObamaCare. Sixteen years later, health insurance premiums have only increased.

If anything, ObamaCare made health insurance more convoluted, with no clear government solution. Maybe that’s because the federal government should not have gotten involved in the first place.

Well, in the lead-up to this year’s midterm election, the former president, who has apparently been loath to follow the historic precedent set by his predecessors and stay out of politics, has been out on the campaign trail stumping for Democrat candidates across the country.

At a recent rally in Georgia, Obama said, “We’ve got to make sure that nobody has to worry about high healthcare premiums.”

Wait, wasn’t ObamaCare supposed to fix this high healthcare cost problem? That’s what Obama told us for years while selling his snake oil.

The fact is, when Obama enacted his health insurance, premiums started increasing at a far higher rate than inflation. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), in 2010, before ObamaCare, employer-sponsored family health insurance premiums averaged $13,770 annually. In 2026, that employer-sponsored family health insurance premium has jumped to $28,303, a 106% increase.

The average deductible in 2010 for a single-coverage employer-sponsored plan was $917. Today it’s risen to $1,995, a 113% increase.

Total healthcare spending per person has also jumped significantly from $8,402 in 2010 to $15,474, an 84% increase. Total family healthcare spending has risen from $18,074 in 2010 to $37,824 today, a 109% increase.

These numbers show that health insurance costs rose at nearly twice the cumulative inflation rate since ObamaCare was implemented.

So, Obama is right: the cost of health insurance is too high. But what he conveniently leaves out is that his signature policy not only failed to deliver the cost savings he sold, but also worsened the problem.

And the dirty little secret is that was the plan from the beginning. ObamaCare was not meant to solve rising healthcare costs; rather, its designers intended it as a stepping stone to create greater demand for government-provided single-payer healthcare, or socialized medicine.

Therefore, the last thing Americans can afford is another Democrat-created healthcare coverage policy that will only make Americans poorer, especially since radical socialists are taking over the Democrat Party — and, with yesterday’s election, the country.

So, thanks, Obama, for reminding us of your and the Democrats’ expensive and maddeningly inefficient and convoluted healthcare legislation. It may have bought you some votes, but at the cost of Americans’ economic and healthcare freedoms.