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Mike Johnson: “The expiring Obamacare subsidy at the end of the year is a…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 39:17

That's an important first start. And so the next thing is to fix all the other components of healthcare. That's what we have plans to do. That's what we're working on. The expiring Obamacare subsidy at the end of the year is a serious problem because...it is subsidizing bad policy. policy. We're throwing good money at a bad broken system. And so it needs real reforms. The reason it was never appropriate or never possible to be resolved on a simple CR stopgap funding measure is because it's very complicated to fix. (39:17–39:28)

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Asserts that the expiring Obamacare subsidy is problematic as it subsidizes bad policy.

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