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Rep. Jody Arrington criticizes ACA, backs GOP plan to redirect COVID-era subsidies to consumers
Summary
In a broadcast interview, Rep. Jody Arrington, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, criticized the Affordable Care Act and COVID-era subsidies as worsening affordability and endorsed Republican proposals to redirect subsidies to patients and use reconciliation if necessary.
Rep. Jody Arrington, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, told interviewers that COVID-era health insurance subsidies have been layered onto an already flawed Affordable Care Act and voiced support for Republican proposals to redirect those payments to patients.
Arrington said returning to pre-COVID ACA arrangements had not solved affordability problems. "Premiums and deductibles, doubling since the inception of Obamacare," he said, adding that the law had sold "a bill of goods" about affordable coverage. He called current subsidy arrangements "layer after layer of bad policy, and failed policies, and the American people are paying the price." Arrington cited, without providing documents on air,…
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