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House Budget Committee chair says Republican fixes — not subsidy extensions — should be the focus on health care
Summary
Jody Arrington told Bloomberg he expects COVID-era Affordable Care Act subsidy extensions are unlikely to become law and urged Republicans to pursue structural reforms including income caps on subsidies, health savings accounts and payment-equality measures to lower premiums.
Jody Arrington, chairman of the House Budget Committee, told Bloomberg TV that Republican proposals to change the Affordable Care Act — rather than short-term extensions of COVID-era subsidies — are the preferable route to lower premiums and reduce costs.
Arrington said he does not expect proposed extension bills to become law and argued that Democrats created the temporary COVID-era subsidy and chose not to make it permanent when they controlled Congress and the White House. "Not one that's gonna become law, Joe," he said, arguing the subsidies were designed to wind down as the pandemic receded.
He framed the central problem as affordability: "How do we make…
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