{"id":22496,"date":"2025-11-13T04:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=22496"},"modified":"2025-11-13T04:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:26:03","slug":"johnson-blames-dems-for-creating-healthcare-crisis-via-obamacare-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=22496","title":{"rendered":"Johnson Blames Dems For Creating Healthcare Crisis Via \u2018Obamacare\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Speaker Mike Johnson lashed out at Democrats on Monday for creating the healthcare crisis they are now using to demand more than a trillion dollars in new spending to reopen the goverment, much of which would be used to continue subsidizing \u201cObamacare\u201d medical premiums.<\/p>\n

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Democrats have kept the government shut down for more than five weeks by failing to side with Republicans on a clean continuing budget resolution to reopen the government. While most Democrats in the House opposed it, all the measure needed in the lower chamber was a majority vote, which it received thanks to GOP support.<\/p>\n

But in the Senate, 60 votes are needed to overcome the filibuster and advance legislation. So far, only a few Democrats have joined the 53 Republicans to support the bill after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) instructed his caucus to oppose the bill and keep the government shuttered while demanding the Obamacare subsidies be added before they expire next month.<\/p>\n

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Republican leaders have said they are willing to negotiate the subsidies but demanded that Democrats support the clean spending bill to reopen the government after many of them supported an identical measure last spring.<\/p>\n

At a Monday press conference, Johnson addressed the subsidies and blamed Democrats for using them as leverage to reopen the government.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is the Democrats who created Obamacare. It is the Democrats who did that without any Republican votes\u201d during then-President Barack Obama\u2019s first term, Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the Democrats who by extension have cost the American taxpayers and people who have health insurance, have made their costs skyrocket,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is their policies that made that happen. And instead of reforming it, the Democrats don\u2019t reform Obamacare. They want to subsidize it. They want to spend more taxpayer dollars,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat, by the way, goes mostly to insurance companies, which makes the cost rise further. That\u2019s the Democrats\u2019 plan,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they passed Obamacare in 2010, they called it the \u2018Affordable Care Act.\u2019 We know the truth is exactly the opposite. By some estimates, premiums have risen 60 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans are the ones fighting to save healthcare. Why? It\u2019s not just talking points to us. We do this. We have ideas and we have already implemented ideas and measures to reduce costs, increase access and quality, and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse,\u201d Johnson continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got millions of ineligible enrollees off the program and it preserved it. It strengthened Medicaid for the people who rely upon it, which is the elderly, disabled, and young pregnant women, as we always use an example,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, [the shutdown] is not about healthcare. That is a false claim and everybody knows it. Everyone in America, and certainly everybody in this room, understands that this is about something else. It\u2019s about FEAR [of the radical left],\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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