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5,698 days since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga. 14th) laments Republicans have no plan to address rising healthcare costs.
Her grievance comes 27 days into the government shutdown under Republican leadership in the White House and Congress over expiring subsides implemented to keep healthcare costs affordable for millions of Americans.
The Republican majority is demanding Democrats agree to their bill to let the subsides expire and have so far offered nothing in return, going so far as to deliberately close channels for negotaition.
Republicans in the Senate, who could end the shutdown immediately by invoking the nuclear option, have instead chosen to put forth the bill 13 times, each time expecting a different outcome despite changing nothing.
This strategy has so far been unsuccessful.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5577071-greene-johnson-health-care-plans-shutdown/
>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) on Tuesday called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for not providing any plans on a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tax subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.
>“You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders,” Greene wrote on social platform X, in response to a post from Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman following a recent GOP conference call.
>“And I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans,” she added.
>“Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call,” the Georgia Republican continued. “Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!”
Her grievance comes 27 days into the government shutdown under Republican leadership in the White House and Congress over expiring subsides implemented to keep healthcare costs affordable for millions of Americans.
The Republican majority is demanding Democrats agree to their bill to let the subsides expire and have so far offered nothing in return, going so far as to deliberately close channels for negotaition.
Republicans in the Senate, who could end the shutdown immediately by invoking the nuclear option, have instead chosen to put forth the bill 13 times, each time expecting a different outcome despite changing nothing.
This strategy has so far been unsuccessful.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5577071-greene-johnson-health-care-plans-shutdown/
>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) on Tuesday called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for not providing any plans on a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tax subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.
>“You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders,” Greene wrote on social platform X, in response to a post from Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman following a recent GOP conference call.
>“And I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans,” she added.
>“Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call,” the Georgia Republican continued. “Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!”
