REPRESENTATIVE PAUL GOSAR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, NOV. 30, 2025

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Weekly Newsletter

November 30, 2025

ICYMI: Obamacare: Premiums Went Up, Coverage Went Down, and Insurance Companies Got Filthy Rich!

Earlier this week, the Daily Signal published my editorial regarding the failings of Obamacare and what Congress can and should be doing to reform America's healthcare system. If you missed it, below is my entire editorial.

For more than a decade, Americans have lived under the Affordable Care ActlegislationPresidentBarack Obamasold onpromises that you can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor, lower premiums, greater choice, improved access, and those withpreexistingmedical conditions will be protected.

Yet families across the country know the truth:premiums continue to rise, deductibles have exploded, many illegal aliens are enrolled in taxpayer-subsidized ACA plans,and too many hardworking people still struggle to find a doctor who will take their insurance.

Far from covering every American,Obamacarehas left more than28 million uninsured,according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The ACA is not delivering the affordability or accountability Americans deserve, and Congress has a responsibility to act.

Reforming ourhealth caresystem does not require tearing it down; it requires taking it seriously. That begins with rigorous oversight. For years, Congress has allowed insurance companies,pharmacy benefit managers, and other industry giants tooperatewithout meaningful scrutiny. We must change that.As of 2023,the CEOs of the five largest health insurers made roughly $75 million in annual compensation,while American families' premiums have risen to nearly $26,000 a year.

In all, since Obamacare became law,more than$9 trillionof taxpayer-funded revenue has flowed to health insurance companies.It is time to bring health insurance executives and actuarial experts before Congress and demand real answers about why costs keeprising, despitehealth insurersraking innearly$400 billioninrecord profitsand expanding federal subsidies since Obamacare became law.

Hearings and audits should be routinenot rare. We need a transparent accounting of wherehealth caredollars go, how pricing decisions are made, and why American families continue footing the bill for a system that does not put patients first. Greater oversight is not about punishingsuccess; it is about ensuring accountability to the public.

And accountabilitymust include transparency. Any health insurer that accepts taxpayer-funded dollarswhether throughthe Obamacareexchanges, Medicaid managed care, or subsidized employer plansshould berequiredto publiclydiscloseand justify proposed rate increases, just as public utilities often must. Ifpublicutilities are expected to defend every rate hike affecting household budgets, health insurers receiving billions in taxpayer support should be held to the same standard. Rate decisions thatimpactmillions of families must be open to public scrutiny, not buried in fine print.

As a doctor, Iknow firsthandthatcongressionaloversight alone will not fix what is broken. We must also tackle one of the most persistent and overlooked drivers of cost: lawsuit abuse. Defensive medicinetests and procedures ordered primarily to avoid lawsuitsaddsbillions each year to the cost of care. A straightforward "loser pays" tort reform model would discourage frivolous litigation, reduce unnecessary medical expenses, and help stabilize malpractice premiums for doctors, particularly those practicing in rural and high-risk specialties. Patients would still have the right to pursue legitimate claims, but bad-faith lawsuits would no longer be rewarded.

At the same time, we should be incentivizing wellness instead of simply paying for illness. Chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart diseaseaccount for the majority ofhealth carespending. Encouraging preventive care, fitness, nutrition, and disease management programsthrough tax credits, insurance incentives, and community-based partnershipswould reduce long-term costs and improve Americans' quality of life.Wellness is also fully aligned withPresident Donald Trump's focuson makingAmerica healthy againand reducing preventable diseases.And we must acknowledge a hard truth: Efforts toprovide taxpayer-funded insurance to illegal aliensinevitably strain the system to the breaking pointultimately leavingno one truly insured.A healthier nation is a more prosperous one.

Finally, we must embrace the besthealth caretechnologies available. From telehealth to artificial intelligence-driven diagnostics to digital health monitoring, innovation offers the most promising path to lowering costs and expanding access.

During the pandemic, millions of Americans,including those in my rural district in Arizona,discovered that many appointments could be handled virtually, saving time and money. Congress should build on that progress by modernizing outdated regulations, expanding rural broadband, and ensuring insurers adequately reimburse technology-enabled care. The private sector is producing world-class tools;governmentshould clear the way for their widespread use.

Reforming the ACA and our broaderhealth caresystem isnot aboutpartisanshipitis aboutresponsibility. American families cannotendureanother decadeof Obamacare broken promises.They deserve a system that ispublic andtransparent,accountable,fair, innovative, and affordable. Through strong oversight, responsible legal reform, wellness incentives, and modern technology, we can deliver ahealth caresystem worthy of the people it serves.

Congress mustleadand thetime for real reform is now.

Department of War Investigating Serious Misconduct Allegations against Democrat Senators

As I noted in last week's newsletter, several Democrats, including Arizona Senator Mark Kelly,released a videocalling on members of our armed forces to refuse orders ostensibly given by our Commander in Chief and top military officials.

In response, the Department of War announced this week that it is investigating Senator Kelly, warning that the former Navy sailor could be recalled for court-martial after his dangerous stunt.

Dangerous, why? As the American Spectator rightfully points out: it is dangerous for elected officials to threaten the elected president of the United States by telling the honorable men and women in the American military and intelligence communities that obeying a presidential order is illegal or worse, criminal. This is clearly a seditious summons for the military to disobey a constitutional presidential order issued by the constitutionally protected president.

Let's go back just a few years ago and take a look at what the other Democrats have already done prior to the shameful video. Remember the bleeding-heart General Mark Milley? I do. He did exactly what these Senate Democrats asked all our military to do in their video: obstruct the Commander in Chief and undermine the military and civilian control.

To refresh your memory, General Milley made calls to our military enemy China to secretly reveal he would disobey Trump. Milley chatted with his Chinese counterpart, General Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army, and he did it twice in the final months of Trump's presidency, without Trump's knowledge or approval.In these calls, Milley didn't just reassure; he explicitly offered to warn China ahead of time if Trump ordered any military action against them telling Li that "If we're going to attack, I'm going to call you ahead of time. It's not going to be a surprise." That's not protocol; that's preemptive sabotage.

The latest video from Senator Kelly urging the military to commit seditious acts is reckless, but consistent with the likes of General Milley. TheDepartment of Warwarned that theinvestigationmay include Senator Kelly's "recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures," stressing "that military retirees remain subject to the UCMJ for applicable offenses, and federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. 2387 prohibit actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces."

Trying to convince members of our armed services to commit mutiny is one of the most serious offenses in the military. Stay tuned to the Gosar Newsletter for more developments concerning this deeply irresponsible video.

Gosar Was Right Again: Legislation Pauses ALL Immigration for 10 Years

This week's tragic shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. within a few feet of the White House on Thanksgiving eve by Afghani Rahmanullah Lakanwal is a sad reminder that once again, I was right: The Biden administration literally and figuratively opened the gates to our country and welcomed hundreds of thousands of criminals into America. That's why more than four years ago I introduced legislation stopping all immigration into our country for 10 years.

In this latest example, Lakanwal entered the U.S. in 2021 through Operation Allies Welcome, a Biden-era immigration program to resettle thousands of Afghans who helped the U.S. during the war and feared reprisal from Taliban forces who seized control after Biden's catastrophic U.S. retreat from Kabul. More than 70,000 Afghans have been resettled in the U.S. under the program.

Multiple reports have concluded that the program Biden pushed through in 2021 had deeply concerning flaws in its vetting process and then failed to monitor the refugees properly once they were here. For example, in anaudit of the vetting process conducted in 2022, the Inspector General's office found that DHS officers "did not always have critical data to properly screen, vet, or inspect the evacuees."

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller summed it up best this week, noting "The Democrats have inflicted on this nation the WORST national security threat in our HISTORY! We've never faced a threat like this...20 MILLION people brought into our country from the most failed societies on earth, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Iraq, brought here. No vetting, no conditions, no rules."

As I've often stated, we cannot have legal immigration when we have rampant illegal alien invaders and others allowed to enter our country without proper vetting. This is a threat to our national security and our economy and to our citizens.

President Trump has said his administration would "re-examine" all Afghans who came to the United States during Biden's presidency. "If they can't love our country, we don't want them," he said, noting that the shooting was "a crime against our entire nation." President Trump has sinceannounced his administration is indefinitely stopping the processing of all immigration requests for Afghan nationals pending a review of security and vetting protocols.

The bottom line is that you cannot just leave our borders open or allow in tens of thousands of people with totally different value systems from our own. This is the one time I hate to have been right.