No Republican voted for Obamacare, and its skyrocketing deductibles.

Byron York put it pretty plainly:

…the deductibles on many Americans’ health insurance policies have shot up so high that as a practical matter they can’t afford care. If a couple had a deductible of, say, $500 in the past, and it’s now $3,000, that couple has to spend a lot of money out-of-pocket before reaping the benefits of coverage. And the higher the deductible, the more likely a person is going to skip some sort of needed treatment or medicine because he or she can’t afford the up-front costs.

…the first question to ask is: How did those deductibles get so high in the first place?

The answer is Obamacare.

So now the Democrats want to to be given more power and influence, so that they could go about trying fix this problem that they themselves created, and then allowed to grow to malignant maturity. This is precisely like a junkie asking you to give him more money, so that he can go buy a mop and bucket in order to clean up all the [excrement] that he just smeared all over your floor.  I mean, I’m sure that the junkie in that scenario is apologetic, and everything; but he’s also a junkie.  As Stephen King once had one of his characters note: never trust a junkie.