U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the once-loyal MAGA soldier whose recent attacks on her own party have led some to wonder if she is the "New Republican Voice of Sanity," is out with another thrashing of the GOP, this time on health care.
"More of my Republican colleagues are finally talking about the unaffordable health insurance crisis, but yesterday on our GOP conference call Speaker Johnson said he has ideas and pages of policy, but did not say a single policy plan," she wrote on Wednesday. "I think that is unacceptable."
Congresswoman Greene did not reserve her criticism for just Republicans.
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Claiming that "Democrats created this nightmare 15 years ago, then made it worse in 2021 by extending the ACA tax credits that are now expiring," she declared, "I find it unacceptable that Republicans are sitting on the sidelines doing nothing to fix this healthcare disaster that is leading many Americans into financial ruin."
Numerous reports say some — and including many of Greene's fellow Georgia residents — will see Obamacare premiums "more than double" unless Congress reinstates the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which Republicans to date have refused to do.
Greene blames Democrats for the expiring subsidies, and alleges that Democrats "are admitting they screwed the whole health insurance system up and they are admitting original Obamacare is now way too expensive."
Reminding her colleagues that they are the party in power, she called on Republicans "to build the off ramp off of Obamacare in a responsible way, deregulate healthcare and pharmaceuticals and demand price transparency across the board, and incentivize the market in such a way to open up competition which will drive down cost."
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"Pick up your bat and ball and get in the game," she urged, while taking a swipe at MAGA loyalty.
"Our districts voted for us. Our districts sent us to Congress. No one else. No one or any lobby deserves our loyalty and support."
President Donald Trump, during his first term, promised multiple times he would put out a plan to "repeal and replace" Obamacare. No comprehensive plan ever surfaced. During the 2024 presidential campaign, he said he had the "concepts of a plan."
Last year in September, KFF reported that "Trump has long talked about making the ACA less expensive, but the question is less expensive for whom. Trump’s past proposals would certainly have made the ACA less expensive for the federal government, but with the trade-off of higher out-of-pocket premiums for people, more uninsured, and higher spending and greater risk for states."
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