{"id":9038,"date":"2025-11-14T01:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:43:13","slug":"we-caught-them-speaker-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=9038","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Caught Them\u2019 \u2014 Speaker John"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Shutdown and Healthcare Debate<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson told Newsmax that once the government shutdown ends, House Republicans plan to focus on lowering healthcare costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House passed a temporary funding bill, but it stalled in the Senate amid disagreements over expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. GOP Criticism of Subsidies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson argued that subsidies benefit insurers instead of lowering prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe problem is that we are subsidizing very wealthy insurance companies,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;he said, adding that the ACA is&nbsp;<strong>\u201ca broken and failing system.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Removed GOP Provisions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Republicans\u2019 One Big Beautiful Bill Act included measures to cut premiums by 12.7%, but&nbsp;<strong>\u201cthe Democrats fought to take it out of the bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson stressed the need for reforms rather than subsidies.&nbsp;<strong>\u201cMerely subsidizing something is not the answer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4. Next Steps<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With subsidies ending Dec. 31, Johnson said Republicans will reintroduce ideas and seek bipartisan agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to get a bipartisan consensus\u2026 and present our ideas.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Shutdown and Healthcare Debate Speaker Mike Johnson told Newsmax that once the government shutdown ends, House Republicans plan to focus on lowering healthcare costs. The House passed a temporary funding bill, but it stalled in the Senate amid disagreements over expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. 2. GOP Criticism of Subsidies Johnson argued that subsidies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9039,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions\/9039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}