Posted on 10/07/2025 3:19:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
House Speaker Mike Johnson defended himself and fellow GOP leaders after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized them for lacking a plan to deal with the expiring COVID expansion of Obamacare subsidies.
“There’s a lot of work that’s been done on that,” Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, said Tuesday. “It’s implied as if this has been some sort of ignored issue. It’s not that at all.”
Ms. Greene, Georgia Republican, took to social media on Monday to announce her support for extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, which Democrats are demanding to reopen the government.
It was a notable break from other right-wing lawmakers who want to see the pandemic expansion expire at year’s end.
“It is absolutely shameful, disgusting, and traitorous, that our laws and policies screw the American people so much that the government is shut down right now fighting over basic issues like this,” Ms. Greene posted on X.
She criticized GOP leaders for showing a lack of interest in addressing the issue.
“Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!” Ms. Greene wrote.
Mr. Johnson said Ms. Greene is “probably not read in” on the work behind the scenes because she doesn’t serve on the committees of jurisdiction.
“They’ve still been sort of in their silos, of the people who specialize in those issues,” he said. “When we get the conference back and when everybody’s back together, we will go through a lot of that.”
Ms. Greene posted that she’s “not a fan” of Obamacare and generally believes insurance is a “scam,” but she is “absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.”
Democrats expanded the premium tax...
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Thank you, MTG, for throwing Schumer and the Democrats a lifeline to try help them reverse the script on this shutdown...
Why is the federal government subsidizing Obamacare? All that does is hit Joe Taxpayer and enrich insurance companies, pharma and hospital.
Whatever is subsidized becomes more expensive.
That’s how socialist medicine works. They hide the costs by funding it from general revenue.
and this is NOT even all the commies want, has anyone bothered to check out the rest of their wishlist, they want NPR and PBS refunded, they want trans surgeries for minors, they want to send BILLIONS of tax dollars to foreign nations for “Trans rights” the list goes on and on and on, basically it would make the big beautiful bill null and void
We generally like people that don’t put up with anything and gives tue powers that be, a hard time.
However, shooting off the hip like this is extremely annoying.
I can’t stand MTG! She is a complete narcissist and just trying to stay relevant.
“In 2023 and 2024, 80 percent of marketplace enrollees could find a plan for $10 or less per month on HealthCare.gov, the federal marketplace that operates in 31 states (19 states and the District of Columbia run their own marketplaces).”
“The enhanced subsidies have translated into higher enrollment in ACA marketplace plans and fewer uninsured people. They helped increase enrollment in the marketplaces from 12 million in 2021 to a record 24.2 million in 2025.”
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“Medicare Premium Bill....Current Premium Due...Total Amount Due $555.00 by 10/25/2025”
That’s from a document that came yesterday.
That’s $185/month.
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FAIR SHARE PPACA PREMIUM MINIMUMS
I would impose these premium minimums, whichever is the higher:
1. 2% of the Medicare premium amount per insured year of age as of the start of coverage
2. a percentage of the premium amount equal to the household income percentage of FPL - 60% divided by 3
For a 5-year-old, 7-year-old, 32-year-old and 34-year-old, the ages would sum to 88 and the monthly absolute minimum premium amount would be a (88/65)*$185 or $250.46.
For a 5-year-old kid and a 27-year-old mom the ages would sum to 32 and the monthly absolute minimum premium amount would be (32/65)*$185 or $91.07.
To make all that palatable to the Democrats, I would lower the original PPACA subsidy threshold from 100% of FPL to 80% of FPL.
She is largely correct.
I have heard nothing from GOP leadership about the matter.
Let the ObamaCare Enhanced Premium Subsidies Expirehttps://archive.is/CobXM#selection-539.0-539.51
here is a good explanation of details.
The covid emergency has ended a while ago (if there was ever any real emergency to begin with)
Also the epitome of entitlement governance- you can never take one back
The ACA forces all kinds of ridiculous mandates on health insurance plans, so it seems right that the federal government should pay for the useless sh!t it imposes on us.
Maybe Johnson is throwing MTG the lifeline to let her do this. The House has passed the CR and Georgia is completely dirty, being run by Kemp and Raffensperger with 2 ‘Rat US Senators.
“DOUBLING!!!”
$50/month to $100/month
The horror!
Medicare is $185/month.
“”””Thank you, MTG, for throwing Schumer and the Democrats a lifeline to try help them reverse the script on this shutdown...””””
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Candace Owens are in dire need of a psychiatric intervention.
Greene’s Georgia is not a Medicaid expansion state.
Neither are Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
MTG is an idiot
No one I know of likes Obamacare, it’s favored Big Insurance more than anyone, but at the same time the GOP needs something to mitigate what may befall some middle class Americans - a potential premium increase:
Just sayin...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4344766/posts
I have to admit, the Republicans lasted longer than I thought they would before they began to cave to the Democrats.
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