Cooper Declines To Elaborate On Unrealistic Healthcare Proposal

Last week, Democrat Senate candidate and former Governor Roy Cooper posted on X: “The $200 billion this administration wants to spend on a foreign war would pay for affordable health care for nearly 10 years.” This was posted in response to a Washington Post article about the potential cost of war in Iran. Cooper did not provide any additional commentary on this plan for “affordable healthcare,” and nowhere on his website is there a proposal that would cost $200 billion. The Cooper team declined to elaborate further on Cooper’s “affordable” healthcare plan.  

While Cooper’s plan sounds good, the reality is that the federal government already spends well over $200 billion on healthcare, and that has not made it affordable. Through Medicare and Medicaid alone, the federal government spends over $1.8 trillion annually, well over the $20 billion in additional healthcare spending proposed by Cooper. Annually, the United States spends $14,570 per person on healthcare, and Medicare and Medicaid spend $5,833 per American. It is hard to see how Cooper’s plan to spend $66 per American would make a massive difference in making healthcare affordable.  

NCGOP Communications Director Matt Mercer said, “Crooked Roy Cooper can't be bothered to praise the incredible success of our military in Iran as he lies about who made health care unaffordable in our country. Democrats rammed through Obamacare, and working families paid the price, particularly in North Carolina, whose costs became the highest in the nation under his watch.”  

Tim’s Take: Rather than engage on the foreign policy issue facing the United States, Cooper offers up unserious rhetoric on unrealistic promises about Americans’ healthcare. Cooper’s problem is the same as Biden’s challenge. Democrats’ policies are ineffective and unpopular, and they can’t fix it with more comms work. Cooper’s healthcare plan is simply a restatement of Obamacare and Biden’s healthcare agenda. But Cooper and other Schumer Democrats have no new policy ideas; they are simply reusing old talking points.