America's insurance system is broken — and patients are rightfully frustrated. But Democrats are exploiting that frustration to push for a cure that would be worse than the disease: socialized medicine. U.S. Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) recently suggested that the solution to America's insurance woes is to simply "allow everyone to buy into Medicare."

What this conveniently ignores is that Democrats' years-long push for socialized health care created the mess we're in today.

Democrats shoved the Affordable Care Act through Congress and expanded it into a vast system of healthcare subsidies. That disastrous legislation created perverse incentives that have fueled insurer consolidation, driven up costs, and left patients with fewer, worse options.

Doubling down with policies like "Medicare for All" would only break the system further.

Democrats don't have a real plan to fix the insurance system. By contrast, Republicans have spent President Trump's second term working to solve the root causes of dysfunction. GOP leaders should not only continue to press those efforts forward, but also make clear to the public who is driving real change — and who is merely stoking outrage.

The biggest problems with today's health insurance market stem from consolidation. A small number of companies now control nearly every........

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