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The Bret Baier Podcast

Common Ground: Fixing Healthcare, Lowering Costs

The Bret Baier Podcast

FOX News Podcasts

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.1739 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

As Republicans face increasing pressure to put forth a healthcare solution, four in the party broke ranks with the rest and joined a Democrat-led discharge petition, which would force a vote on a three-year extension of COVID-Era Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of January. One of those Republicans, Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY), spoke to Bret alongside Congressman Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) last week to explain his support for temporarily extending the subsidies, despite the potential backlash it could bring from the rest of his party.    The discharge petition passed on December 17, 2025, although a vote on extending the ACA subsidies has not yet been scheduled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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