Magaziner to Address Rising Healthcare Costs, Expiring Obamacare Tax Credits

Magaziner to address rising healthcare costs, expiring Obamacare tax credits

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Rhode Island Congressman Seth Magaziner will meet with local healthcare workers Tuesday to discuss healthcare costs, an issue at the heart of the government shutdown. In a release, Magaziner’s office said he will meet at the Cambridge Innovation Center in Providence to “highlight the ongoing health care affordability crisis, which is driving up insurance premiums for patients and straining hospital budgets.” Magaziner i…

MACDONALD: Holding The Government Hostage to Fund Fraud

Nothing would be quite so sweet as the likelihood that the “health care crisis” Senate Dems are holding the government hostage to address isn’t about health care at all. That those ObamaCare subsidies they are fighting to renew outside regular order are COVID-Era bailouts to the Medical industrial complex. The Democrats have named their price ... Read more The post MACDONALD: Holding The Government Hostage to Fund Fraud appeared first on Granite…

Conservative Groups Urge Resolve Against Extending Obamacare Subsidies

A coalition letter sent by conservative leaders on Monday is calling on Republican congressional leadership to continue its opposition to extending the expanded Obamacare subsidies even after the government shutdown ends. “We urge you to adhere to your principled opposition to the expanded Obamacare subsidies … even after the current government shutdown has concluded—and even as the December 31st expiration of the expanded subsidies gets closer,…

Republicans, Democrats clash over expiring Obamacare subsidies during ongoing shutdown talks

Republicans and Democrats remain far apart on what to do about Obamacare, with how to handle expiring subsidies being the main sticking point in talks to re-open the federal government. Back when former President Barack Obama signed the legislation into law in 2010, he promised it would "lower costs for families and for businesses and for the federal government, reducing our deficit by over $1T in the next two decades." DEMOCRATS BLAME GOP FOR O…

The Obamacare Ransom: Why Democrats Are Holding the Government Hostage

The Leave Us Alone team takes a closer look at the ongoing government shutdown fight that has now stretched nearly a month and continues to center on Obamacare. Grover Norquist, Mike Palicz, James Erwin, and Jack Baum explain how Democrats are using the shutdown as leverage to extend Obamacare’s temporary subsidies and what that means for taxpayers. The conversation explores how this prolonged standoff reveals the true cost of the program, the g…

Financial News Network - Republicans, Democrats clash over expiring Obamacare subsidies during ongoing shutdown talks

The government shutdown continues as Republicans and Democrats clash over Obamacare subsidies, with GOP citing skyrocketing costs and deficit concerns.Read More …