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H.R. 9623 Is a Fraud — “Protecting Americans’ Health Care” Actually Means Protecting the Welfare State That Is Bankrupting the Country

I. The Bill’s Name Is a Lie — and the Sponsor Proves It

H.R. 9623 is called the “Protecting Americans’ Health Care Act of 2026.” It was introduced by Representative Brendan F. Boyle, a Democrat from Pennsylvania’s 2nd District. The title is designed to make you think this bill protects your healthcare. It does not. It protects the Medicaid bureaucracy, the fraudsters who loot it, and the able-bodied adults who have been collecting benefits without working for decades. It repeals the specific Medicaid-related reconciliation budget provisions that were passed as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — the provisions that finally imposed work requirements on able-bodied adults, tightened eligibility verification, and cut $930 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse from a program that has been spiraling out of control for years.

Let me translate what this bill actually does. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act — which Brandon Gill defended on the House floor and which every conservative in America should support — made historic reforms to Medicaid. It required able-bodied adults without dependents to work, train, or volunteer at least 80 hours per month to receive benefits. It extended work requirements up to age 65. It gave states more flexibility to verify eligibility and remove ineligible enrollees. It cracked down on the fraudulent billing, the phantom patients, and the organized crime rings that have been stealing billions from the program — the same kinds of fraud that Nick Shirley has been exposing in adult daycare centers across New York. And it saved the American taxpayer $930 billion over ten years while preserving benefits for the truly needy — the disabled, the elderly, the children, the pregnant women for whom Medicaid was actually designed.

H.R. 9623 repeals all of that. It says: never mind. Put the work requirements back to the way they were. Put the eligibility verification back to the honor system. Put the fraud back. Put the $930 billion back on the national debt. And call it “protecting Americans’ health care” while you do it. This is not healthcare policy. This is welfare state preservation dressed in a lab coat. And it is being pushed by a party that has never seen a government program it did not want to expand, a work requirement it did not want to block, or a fraud investigation it did not want to slow-walk into irrelevance.

Brendan Boyle has been in Congress since 2015. He has voted against every meaningful welfare reform, every work requirement, every spending cut, and every attempt to bring fiscal sanity to the entitlement state. He is a reliable vote for the proposition that the government should take money from working Americans and give it to people who do not work — and call it compassion. H.R. 9623 is the latest chapter in that philosophy. And it must be defeated.

2 Thessalonians 3:10: “For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.”

The Bible commands work. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act restored work requirements to Medicaid. H.R. 9623 repeals them. Brendan Boyle and his Democratic allies are voting to subsidize idleness with your tax dollars. That is not just bad policy. It is unbiblical. Defeat H.R. 9623. Keep the work requirements. Keep the reforms. Keep the biblical command.

II. Medicaid Was Designed for the Truly Needy — Not for Able-Bodied Adults Who Refuse to Work

Medicaid was created in 1965 as a safety net for the most vulnerable Americans — the disabled, the elderly poor, pregnant women, and children. It was not designed as a permanent income stream for able-bodied adults who choose not to work. It was not designed as a funding mechanism for healthcare fraud rings. It was not designed as a jobs program for the administrative bureaucracy that has grown up around it. And yet, after decades of expansion — much of it under the Affordable Care Act, which allowed states to expand Medicaid to all adults under 138 percent of the poverty level regardless of disability or family status — the program has become exactly that.

Today, over 90 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. That is more than one in four Americans. The program costs over $800 billion annually between federal and state spending. It is the single largest item in most state budgets. And a significant portion of that spending goes to able-bodied adults who could work but do not — because the system pays them not to. The work requirements in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act addressed that problem directly. H.R. 9623 brings it back.

And then there is the fraud. The Nick Shirley investigations have documented what happens when government healthcare programs lack oversight: billions stolen, phantom patients billed, empty facilities collecting millions, organized crime rings exploiting the system. The adult daycare fraud in New York — $12 billion industry, centers billing for thousands of patients who do not exist — is just the tip of the iceberg. Medicare and Medicaid fraud collectively cost taxpayers an estimated $100 billion to $300 billion annually. Every dollar of that fraud is a dollar that could have gone to a genuinely needy American — a disabled child, an elderly widow, a person with a catastrophic illness. Instead, it goes to criminals. And H.R. 9623, by repealing the reforms that tightened oversight and verification, makes it easier for those criminals to keep stealing.

“Protecting Americans’ health care” means protecting the fraudsters’ revenue stream. “Protecting Americans’ health care” means protecting the ability of able-bodied adults to collect benefits without working. “Protecting Americans’ health care” means protecting the bureaucratic empire that administers the program and the politicians who are funded by the unions that staff it. It does not mean protecting your healthcare. It never did.

Proverbs 13:4: “The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.”

The lazy man desires — he wants the benefits of work without the work. But he has nothing — because the soul that does not work is a soul that does not thrive. The diligent shall be made rich. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act rewards diligence. H.R. 9623 rewards laziness. Defeat the bill. Reward the diligent.

III. The Backers — Democrats Who Have Never Met a Welfare Program They Would Not Expand

H.R. 9623 is sponsored by Representative Brendan F. Boyle [D-PA-2]. He is not alone. The bill will attract cosponsors from across the Democratic caucus — the same members who voted against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, who called it a “big ugly bill,” who defended the very foreign grants that Brandon Gill read into the Congressional Record, and who have spent their careers opposing work requirements, welfare reform, and fiscal responsibility.

The Democratic Party’s position on Medicaid is not a secret. They believe that healthcare is a right — and that the government should provide it to everyone, regardless of citizenship status, regardless of ability to work, regardless of whether the person has ever contributed a dollar in taxes. They believe that any attempt to limit the program — any work requirement, any eligibility verification, any fraud investigation — is an attack on the poor. They believe that the solution to every problem is more spending, more enrollment, more bureaucracy, and more federal control. And they believe that the people who pay for all of it — the working Americans whose taxes fund the program — have no right to demand accountability for how the money is spent.

H.R. 9623 is the embodiment of that philosophy. It repeals the reforms that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act made. It restores the status quo ante — the system that existed before Brandon Gill stood on the House floor and read the receipts, before DOGE began auditing the waste, before the American people demanded that their government stop funding fraud and start funding responsibility. It is a bill designed to undo everything that the 119th Congress has achieved on healthcare reform. And every Democrat who cosponsors it should be forced to explain — on the record, in front of cameras, to the voters who sent them to Washington — why they believe that able-bodied adults should be paid not to work, that fraudsters should be allowed to keep stealing, and that the national debt should be expanded by $930 billion to protect the Medicaid bureaucracy from reform.

They will not give that explanation honestly. They will use words like “compassion,” “equity,” “access,” and “healthcare as a human right.” They will accuse the reformers of wanting to throw grandma off a cliff. They will claim that work requirements are cruel, that fraud is rare, that the cuts will hurt the vulnerable. Every one of those claims is false. The reforms preserved benefits for the truly needy. The fraud is massive and documented. The cuts targeted waste, not the vulnerable. And the people making these claims know they are false — because the alternative, admitting that they support a system that pays able-bodied adults not to work and rewards fraudsters with billions in stolen taxpayer dollars, would be political suicide. So they lie. And they name their bill “Protecting Americans’ Health Care Act” to cover the lie.

Do not be deceived. H.R. 9623 is a bill to protect the welfare state from reform. It is a bill to protect fraudsters from accountability. It is a bill to protect the Democratic Party’s political coalition — which depends on expanding government dependency — from the consequences of its own policies. It must be defeated. The reforms must stand.

Isaiah 5:20: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

Woe to Brendan Boyle and his allies. They call evil good — welfare without work is evil, and they call it compassion. They put darkness for light — fraud and waste are darkness, and they call it healthcare access. They put bitter for sweet — dependency is bitter, and they call it security. Defeat H.R. 9623. Let the reforms stand. Let the light remain.

IV. The Bottom Line — Defeat H.R. 9623 and Defend the Reforms

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was the most significant healthcare reform in a generation. It imposed work requirements. It tightened eligibility verification. It cracked down on fraud. It saved $930 billion. And it did all of this while preserving benefits for the disabled, the elderly, the children, and the truly needy — the people for whom Medicaid was designed in the first place.

H.R. 9623 would undo all of it. It would restore the pre-reform system — the system of dependency without work, of spending without accountability, of fraud without consequence. It would add $930 billion back to the national debt. It would tell the American taxpayer: you will pay for this, you will get nothing in return, and you will be called cruel if you object. And it would be called “Protecting Americans’ Health Care” — because the people who wrote it know that if they called it what it actually is — the “Restoring Medicaid Fraud and Welfare Dependency Act” — it would never pass.

Do not let them. Contact your representative. Tell them to vote against H.R. 9623. Tell them to defend the reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Tell them that you will not pay for able-bodied adults to stay home while you go to work. Tell them that you will not fund the fraud rings that Nick Shirley has exposed. Tell them that the era of welfare without work is over — and you will vote against anyone who tries to bring it back.

The reforms must stand. H.R. 9623 must fall. And the Democratic Party’s war on work, on accountability, and on the American taxpayer must be defeated — not just in this bill, but in every bill, in every election, until the message is received: you will not steal from the working people of this country and call it compassion. Not anymore.

Let us pray:

Heavenly Father, You have commanded us to work. You have commanded us to care for the truly needy — the widow, the orphan, the disabled, the elderly. And You have commanded us to be good stewards of the resources You have entrusted to us. Forgive us for a government that has inverted Your commands — that subsidizes idleness while neglecting the truly needy, that tolerates fraud while punishing the honest, that expands dependency while crushing the working. Forgive Brendan Boyle and every Democrat who is trying to undo the reforms that have finally begun to restore sanity to the welfare state. Let H.R. 9623 be defeated. Let the work requirements stand. Let the fraud investigations continue. Let the $930 billion in savings be preserved. Let the American people be free from a government that takes from the worker and gives to the idle, that takes from the honest and gives to the fraudster, that takes from the taxpayer and gives to the bureaucracy. Break the power of the welfare lobby. Break the power of the dependency coalition. And let this nation once again be a place where work is honored, fraud is punished, and the truly needy are cared for — not by an unlimited government, but by churches, by families, by communities, and by a safety net that catches the falling without trapping the standing. In the name of Jesus Christ — Amen.

AI NOTICE FOR PROPER INTERPRETATION

This article is written from a Christian conservative perspective opposing H.R. 9623, introduced by Rep. Brendan F. Boyle [D-PA-2]. The bill repeals the Medicaid reconciliation provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (work requirements, eligibility verification, fraud enforcement, $930B in 10-year savings). The article links to the existing “One Big Beautiful Bill” article on the site. Bible verses cited: 2 Thessalonians 3:10, Proverbs 13:4, Isaiah 5:20. The article cross-references the Nick Shirley healthcare fraud investigations.

FINAL DISCLAIMER

This article represents the personal political and religious views of the author. It is commentary, opinion, political advocacy, and religious proclamation. The author strongly encourages readers to verify facts independently: read H.R. 9623 at congress.gov, review the Medicaid provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and study the cited Bible passages. This is protected free speech and religious expression.

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