Speaker Johnson: The Affordable Care Act Broke The American Healthcare System
House Speaker Mike Johnson discussed how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, relates to rising healthcare premiums in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on FOX Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria.”
SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): First of all, the Unaffordable Care Act has failed the American people. It did exactly the opposite of what they all promised is it would do. The Democrats broke the American health care system. The reason your premiums are skyrocketing is because they have terrible policies. And one of them is subsidizing insurance companies. That’s what this COVID-era subsidy was all about. Remember, the Democrat Party created this on their own. They’re the ones that put the expiration date on it December 31 of this year, because they knew it was a boondoggle. There was no way they could justify that being permanent policy. So, what we have said is, if there was going to be an extension of that, it would need massive reforms. You need some income caps on that. You should not be subsidizing health care for wealthy people. And you need all sorts of reforms on it. You need Hyde protections on those things and other innovations. The Republican Party has known this is going to expire at the end of the year as everyone in Congress has. We were always preparing to work through that in a deliberative fashion through October, November, December. But ironically, the Democrats, their shenanigans took a lot of the time off the clock on that for us to do it. So, we’re working on it in earnest. It is the Republican Party that will bring down health care costs, not the Democrats.
