Speaker Mike Johnson: Health Care Needs ‘Real Reform’ if Obamacare Subsidies Were Renewed

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday said that health care needs “real reform” if Congress were to renew the enhanced Obamacare subsidies that are expiring at the end of the year.

“The Covid-era Obamacare subsidy that they’re all talking about that’s supposedly the issue of the day doesn’t expire until the end of December. And by the way, it is the Democrats who created that subsidy, who put the expiration date on it,” Johnson said during a press conference.

“They put an end date on it because they knew it was supposed to be related to Covid, and it’s become a boondoggle. When you subsidize the health care system and you pay insurance companies more, the prices increase,” he continued.

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