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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:40.5 | The House prepares to vote on a Republican health care bill this week after the Senate on Thursday rejected Democratic legislation |
| 0:46.5 | to extend those pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies that expire at the end of the year. Welcome, |
| 0:53.7 | I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:56.8 | We're joined today by my colleagues on the editorial page, Kate Batchelder O'Dell and Kim Strassel. |
| 1:03.9 | Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, recently pushed the U.S. into the longest government |
| 1:09.0 | shutdown in U.S. history by demanding to renew |
| 1:12.6 | these supercharged Obamacare subsidies from the COVID days. But that idea still doesn't have the |
| 1:19.2 | votes to get through the Senate with a bill to extend the credits for three years failing last week |
| 1:24.3 | to clear the 60 vote threshold. The vote was 51 to 48 with four GOPSs. |
| 1:30.8 | On the House side, meantime, Republicans unveiled their own bill that they hope to vote on this week. |
| 1:36.4 | That is called the Lower Healthcare Premiums for All Americans Act. |
| 1:41.0 | Let's listen to House Speaker Mike Johnson at a press conference today explaining what |
| 1:45.8 | this bill is supposed to do. The bill has five key reforms. I'll just reiterate some of this |
| 1:49.7 | real quickly. It reduces premium cost through cost sharing reduction payments. It brings pharmacy |
| 1:54.9 | benefit manager transparency and removes the hidden cost of prescription drugs. It allows small |
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