U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) said Republicans are ready to negotiate health care costs under the Affordable Care Act, but only after the government reopens.
Monday marks the 27th day of the third-longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Senate Republicans are ready to pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen government, but Democrats have been holding out in hopes of extending Obamacare subsidies, without which some people could see their monthly premiums increase significantly.
"Democrats passed Obamacare without a single GOP vote, and then they propped it up during COVID, and they increased so much of the funding there," Moore said Sunday on News Nation. "But it was never really about fixing healthcare. And so, we've got to look at this from a standpoint of you didn't get to keep your doctor, your premiums didn't decline, and working families got burdened with a tremendous amount of the expense of that.
"And so, there are a lot of reforms we need to look at. And look, it's a separate animal. The ACA vote and keeping the government open are two separate votes. And that's really where we're at on this. We need to get the government back up, back open, and then we'll sit down and negotiate and try to really fix what is the broken health care system in America, primarily a result of the Affordable Care Act, which is terribly unaffordable."
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