Paul Ryan Was Right
Obamacare's True Costs Exposed In my July 20, 2025, column, "Joe Wilson Was Right," I argued that Rep. Joe Wilson’s infamous 2009 outburst-"You lie!"-during President Obama’s address to Congress captured a prophetic truth about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare. While Obama’s claim that the ACA wouldn’t cover undocumented immigrants held true in the law’s text, the reality of fungible federal funds enabled states to extend billions in coverage to non-citizens, a dynamic unmasked by the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). But Wilson’s raw cry was not alone in its foresight. Rep. Paul Ryan, then a rising star…