Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act

Floor Speech

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Mrs. FLETCHER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the disingenuously named Lower Healthcare Premiums for All Americans Act, which does not, in fact, lower healthcare premiums for all Americans.

In response to political pressure from the very real healthcare crisis before us, House Republicans have rushed this bill to the floor without input from House Democrats and without going through the Energy and Commerce Committee, as it should, or any actual legislative process.

That might sound like it is in the weeds, but it is not. It is a glaring failure to engage in real and meaningful policy that the country is demanding. It is a response to the crisis that this Republican Congress has created with the cuts it made earlier this year and its failure to extend the premium tax credits, which we can fix today. It is another example of this Congress failing to do its real work.

We have to see the big picture here. Congress isn't working as it should. Speaker Johnson and House Republicans are pushing this bill on the floor to address a political crisis, not the healthcare crisis.

If House Republicans were serious, this bill would actually do something to lower costs. Instead, the experts tell us this bill will do nothing to decrease costs for Americans and nothing to curb junk plans, but it does have a backdoor ban on abortion for people on ACA plans.

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