(The hill) – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) takes much of the blame rising health care premiums In her own party she argued that the Republicans should have reformed it Affordable Care Actand the expiring tax credits earlier.
Have expiring subsidies in the Obama-era bill been in the foreground challenging the House-passed continuing resolution that would reopen the government thereafter The funding has lapsed more than a month ago.
In an interview Friday with comedian and host Bill Maher, Greene doubled to her criticism of the GOP caucus and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for do not provide any information about a supposed plan to reform the ACA.
“Democrats passed Obamacare, but Republicans have never done anything to fix the problems with it,” she told the “Real Time” host. “And I don’t think it’s an easy fix.”
“However, it is something we should have a plan for and Mike Johnson has not been able to give me a single policy idea for a month,” she added. “And I’m angry about that.”
The Georgia Republican argued that the existing health care law has “crushed” the middle class and diminutive business owners, many of whom pay for their own insurance. She also claimed that health care premiums — under the 2010 law — increased costs for her family of five from $800 a month to more than $2,400.
“I believe Congress should address many of these problems,” Greene said. “However, Congress is not solving these problems, and I have Republican leadership.”
The comments echo similar remarks she made earlier this month when she pressed the Speaker Bring back the legislature to Washington to combat rising health care costs.
Johnson told reporters on Monday that Republicans have worked on an ACA alternative.
“Republicans have been working on a solution to health care for years,” he said during a press conference.
President Trump also put pressure on Wednesday GOP lawmakers to team up with Democrats and “do something” that is “much better than ObamaCare,” the program claims “never worked.”
“I think it’s a great time for the Republicans and the Democrats to come together and create something that works and let the insurance companies make money – that’s what they’re entitled to, but not the money that they make,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One.
However, Greene said that was not the case haven’t heard anything about a possible plan to do this.
“I’m waiting for the plan. I haven’t seen it yet,” she told Maher.
Open Enrollment under the ACA began Saturday without subsidiesputting even low-income families at risk high insurance costs Next year.
