Emergency Call for Obamacare Subsidies

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Senate plans to vote on multiple bills to address expiring subsidies for health insurance marketplace plans. The Coast Guard seizes an oil tanker near Venezuela. And the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates, while cautioning about a softening job market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, December 11th.
0:02.4	Hoping for cheaper health coverage, here's a prescription.
0:05.2	Don't hold your breath.
0:06.9	We start here.
0:10.4	Lawmakers sound the alarm on a New Year's deadline.
0:13.5	I implore my Republican colleagues.
0:15.5	We need just 13 of you to push this bill over the finish line.
0:18.6	Votes are going up today for enhanced Obamacare
0:21.5	subsidy plans, but neither side is backing down. You thought Venezuela would be upset about some
0:26.9	drug boats? Try taking one of its oil tankers. We've just seized a tanker. A new escalation
0:34.6	off the South American coast. And lower interest rates mean the economy's going okay, right?
0:39.8	Well, not so fast.
0:41.2	There is no risk-free path for policy as we navigate this tension.
0:45.1	The complicated economic picture emerging from the Fed.
0:50.0	From ABC News, this is Start Here.
0:53.4	I'm Brad Milky.
1:02.7	Remember the longest shutdown in U.S. government history?
1:03.9	Yeah, that one, this year.
1:04.4	Remember that?
1:06.9	Ostensibly, it was all about health care.
1:09.7	Democrats want to deal with the health care problem now.
1:11.8	20 million Americans are set to see their premiums double. People are going to lose their health care. Democrats said they would
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