Common Ground: Fixing Healthcare, Lowering Costs
The Bret Baier Podcast
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4.1 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Fox News Podcasts Presents the Brett Bear Podcasts with Fox News Chief Political anchor Brett Bear. |
| 0:14.8 | Republicans have launched an all-out assault on the health care of the American people, and it continues today. |
| 0:19.6 | Republican Party, Republican candidates and incumbents are the only ones actually |
| 0:23.6 | working and actually voting to reduce the cost of health care. |
| 0:26.6 | The Democrats are not. |
| 0:27.6 | People are going to see a health care premium spike. |
| 0:31.6 | When you actually look at both sides and this situation, it could be resolved immediately, but nobody wants to do it. |
| 0:39.7 | We have a disagreement. You know, that happens all the time. Our moderates, just like our |
| 0:44.0 | most conservative members, want to lower premiums for all families. |
| 0:49.7 | All right, in tonight's Common Ground segment, a bipartisan effort to pass legislation to keep |
| 0:54.0 | health care insurance premiums from skyrocketing at the start of the year. |
| 0:57.9 | Joining us tonight are New York Republican Congressman Mike Lawler, New Jersey Democratic |
| 1:01.7 | Congressman Jockeithheimer. |
| 1:04.5 | Congressman Lawler, you're one of four Republicans who have signed onto this effort. |
| 1:10.3 | And we'll put the the |
| 1:11.2 | pictures up there it's |
| 1:13.0 | you know inside the caucus this is seen as uh... a tough tough thing because they |
| 1:17.7 | believe that they're in the process of trying to fix health care |
| 1:21.0 | you're saying you got to sign on to this to give them the breathing space |
| 1:24.5 | and not hurt your constituents? |
| 1:33.8 | Correct, Brett. There's two issues here. One is the expiration of the enhanced premium tax credit, |
| 1:39.2 | which Democrats put in place during COVID, slated to expire at the end of this year, |
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