Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act

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Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, let me simplify the debate today for the American people.

Republicans are bringing forward reforms that will actually lower the cost of care. According to CBO, which is the gold standard for my Democratic colleagues, it will reduce premiums by 11 percent.

Mr. Speaker, the only other time premiums have gone down since ObamaCare was enacted was when Republicans actually advanced reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act; namely, rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. That lowered the cost of care.

We continue to bail out the unaffordable care act and actually make it more affordable, along with other policies that provide the Federal assistance to the people, not insurance agencies, and give the private market more competition and transparency so that people have more choice. That is our plan, and it lowers costs for everybody.

The Democrats are trying to put forward an extension of a COVID-era, fraud-ridden subsidy that has proven time and again--GAO, CBO, all the watchdogs say it is fraught with tens of billions of dollars of fraud. Tens of thousands of Social Security numbers from dead people have been used to siphon money away from this program.

Millions of people, according to CBO, are ineligibly on the program, and the answer from the Democrats is to perpetuate this fraud bag, which is a completely egregious and reckless thing to do as stewards of tax dollars. This is not to mention that it is propping up the underlying program that, year after year, has raised premiums and deductibles two times--it has doubled premiums and deductibles since ObamaCare has been enacted.

We have fewer choices. Things are worse.

As Ronald Reagan said so beautifully, so aptly, in this moment, I can't think of any better words: ``Government is not the solution . . .'' here. Democrats all have proven that. ``Government is the problem,'' and we have the solution that actually delivers the affordability to the American people.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support it.

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