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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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She’s wrong here and should STFU.
Correct, the sooner we end obamacare, medicare and medicaid the better. Every time gov enters the market arena it destroys and makes thing more expensive.
“And, that happens, Republicans are going to take a beating in 2026.”
Great, we have Chuck Schumer and MT Nutcase saving the Republicans!
Which side are you on? Trump/Johnson, or AOC/Schumer/MT Crackhead?
You have to reform the system and make healthcare premiums and insurance more affordable by bringing market forces back into the equation before you get the subsides. Duh!
Which side are you on?!
This has been coming for 15 years. It’s the democrats’ law and they are the ones who wrote it. If they didn’t want subsidies to ever end, they should have written it that way.
So why didn’t they write it that way? To pretend that the legislation wouldn’t cost us as much as reality dictates? To make another incremental step toward single-payer?
And they are not getting rid of subsidies (welfare)(an integral part of Obamacare/ACA)...they are just letting the extra-large COVID era added subsidies expire.
Right now with ACA/Obamacare we are 85% of the way to socialized/single-payer health “insurance”...the government is paying 85+% of the inflated cost (inflated by having to also pay insurance company salaries, etc.). We either have to say “uncle” and let it go full socialized and crash the country fiscally, or go back to traditional health insurance driven by actuaries that know you need a pool of policyholders that includes the young and old, and get the government out of healthcare 100%...which causes prices to drop 80%, making it affordable for the middle class on an insurance policy or cash basis.
Only 6% of the population. For a large number of them, the subsidy is relatively small. It is just a rollback to 2021. It just gets rid of this Biden monstrosity.
I am on the side of less government. You are in the side of the democrats, Chuck Schumer, and a bunch of welfare queens. Maybe Biden wills end yo a thank you note for helping preserve his legacy.
Just in case anyone is still reading let me tell you my experience.
For myself in the Marketplace for 3 years now, my premium has been about $700 a month with a small subsidy. Deductible is $8000, OOP Max is $9000. With that and everything else our standard of living is in the 17th sub-basement.
Last year was wild with several out of the blue emergencies. I am still paying off $20,000 to the hospital on top of the premiums paid.
Coverage after deductible is 50% of the negotiated price. I broke a bone in my foot and needed a walking boot. The podiatrist office sold me one , I didn’t realize until after the bill came that they charged me $750 for it. The “negotiated price” was a bit over $500, I had to pay $275 for a POS walking boot I could have gotten at any pharmacy for less than $60. Talk about outrage? What else did I way overpay for?
Thank GOD this year has been normal.
Next year I will not be able to pay double premium if it comes to it and drop the POS “insurance” altogether. Frankly I don’t know why why I even bother to have it at all, I might do better as a cash customer.
The “ACA” and the Marketplace destroyed the pretty good insurance system we had in place before the sonofabitch Bath House got immaculated to the White House.
The money we’ve all paid into the fraudulent scheme has gone somewhere - where?
I still say drop it, drop the subsidies, get rid of the ACA altogether and do better because the “ACA” is neither affordable nor sustainable. Keep on this road and DC will throw up its hands and put us all on Medicaid, socialized medicine.
MTG has her heart in the right place but she has no idea.
I believe DC is still exempt from the outrageousness of the ACA, yeah?
Lose health insurance or lose government subsidies of “health care”?
I know...seems quite unfair:
“DOUBLING!!!”
$50/month to $100/month
The horror!
Medicare is $185/month.
I didn’t say cave, I said “began” to cave. When the republicans begin to show a weakness on their resolve, the media will attack ruthlessly until they break their backs. Johnson has already said a remedy can be discussed once the government is funded, it doesn’t expire until the end of the year. That should be the message from all republicans.
If it's at level that is going to create legitimate horror stories and cost Republicans, it's political suicide to go through with it WITHOUT A PLAN TO REFORM THE SYSTEM AND BEING MARKET FORCES BACK INTO THE EQUATION AND BRING HEALTHCARE COSTS AND INSURANCE DOWN.
You're too stupid to grasp that you don't take something away with replacing with someone thing better. And, that makes you not every bright.
Not if you support doing something that will allow Democrats to takeback the House.
How would that advance the cause of less government?
This is bigger than your two adult children Marge. 🙄
I don’t have time for weak crybaby fearmongers. If we can’t cut anything the country will die. I’d rather it die by trying to cut spending than die by debt collapse.
You know what else is a horror story? Mass shootings. Let’s ban assault rifles so the Dems can’t use the issue.
By your logic, Republicans should increase the subsidy - why not double or triple it? Healthcare is a disaster, there are already plenty of horror stories. Every election since Obama has been Dems crying about healthcare.
Pull up your skirt and stop being such a traitorous coward.
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