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Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal, lead House sponsor of Medicare for All, posted this on X: “Health insurance CEOs made a combined $350 million last year. That money came from your premiums, your denials, your deductibles. They’re getting rich off your suffering. Tax them. Cover everyone.” Same woman who’s pushed single-payer for years. What a coincidence. First, the inflated number: The six largest health insurers’ CEOs earned a combined $159.4 million in 2024 — less than half what Jayapal claimed — according to SEC filings analyzed by Fierce Healthcare. Even adding smaller players like Molina and Oscar doesn’t get close to $350 million. Now the part she hopes you ignore: The Affordable Care Act — the very system she’s suddenly furious about — was largely written by Liz Fowler, who came straight from a top executive role at WellPoint (then America’s largest insurer). After Obamacare passed, the Obama White House put her in charge of implementing it. She later landed a senior job at Johnson & Johnson. The insurance industry helped draft the bill. A Democratic Congress passed it. A Democratic president signed it. It forced Americans to buy private insurance or pay a penalty. It capped insurer profits as a percentage of premiums — rewarding higher costs. Premiums exploded. When costs became unbearable, Democrats created massive subsidies that flow directly from taxpayers to insurance companies — ballooning from $18 billion in 2014 to $138 billion in 2025 (CBO). Insurance stocks have soared over 1,000% since Obamacare passed. The S&P 500? Just 251% in the same period. Now Jayapal wants you mad enough at the results to give the same political class total control over the entire system. Classic playbook: Inflate the outrage, hide the history, sell the “solution.” The corruption wasn’t an accident. It was by design.