We all know they don’t have a “plan” other than to allow the insurance companies to go back to denying coverage, or selling worthless junk plans that didn’t pay for anything like they did before the ACA was enacted.
That didn’t stop Mike Johnson from giving this lame response to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent criticism over the ACA subsidies they’re allowing to expire in their “one big beautiful” turd of a bill that passed earlier this year.
Here’s Johnson proving Greene’s point on this weekend’s Fox News Sunday:
BREAM: So another thing that happened this weekend is open enrollment began for Obamacare. People are seeing a change in their uh premiums essentially if these subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year are not changed, renewed, handled in some way.
Last time you were here we talked about Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene who had some real frustrations about this. “Where is the Republican plan?” I know you two had talked. Well, she posted this on X this week.
She says “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. Apparently I have to go into a SCIF,” referencing a protected intel sharing type place, “to find out the Republican health care plan!!!” And there are a lot of exclamation points there.
JOHNSON: Yeah, I don’t know what to say about that. I mean, that’s absurd. Obviously, we’re not going to be on a conference call explaining all of our plans and strategies for health care reform because they’re leaked in real time, literally, when I have a conference call with all my members, it’s tweeted out by journalists.
They’re supposed to be private, but they’re not. And so, Marjorie knows that. She knows she can come into my office any day at any hour and I’ll lay out everything for her.
The Committees of Jurisdiction, the people who specialize in all of this, have been working on this around the clock for a long time. In fact, we published 60 or 70 pages of healthcare reform ideas in 2019 when I was the chair of the Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus in Congress.
Our ideas have been out there for a long time. We’re formulating the final plan that will bring down premiums. There’s only one party in America that is going to do that. Remember, the Democrats are the ones that created the system that is failing us. They created Obamacare. They said it was going to bring down cost is done exactly the opposite. Premiums by some estimates are up 60 percent since Obamacare was created in 2010. So it’s the Republican Party that is going to bring down the cost, not the Democrats. They’ve already proven what they’re about.
The Affordable Care Act was basically Mitt Romney’s Republican health care plan that Republicans all loved until a Black Democrat decided to adopt it as a compromise in an effort to bring them along.
Medicare for all would bring costs down, but the right has been demonizing that as “socialism” for an eternity.
Their plan is still the same:
It’s a very simple plan. Here it is. The Republican health care plan for America: Don’t get sick. That’s right, don’t get sick. If you have insurance, don’t get sick. If you don’t have insurance, don’t get sick. If you’re sick, don’t get sick.
If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: die quickly. That’s right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.