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House Speaker Mike Johnson went on The Ingraham Angle this week to lay out where Republicans stand on a looming health-care fight, and his message should put Democrats on notice: Congress won’t rubber-stamp more bad policy disguised as compassion. Johnson made plain that Republicans are focused on real reforms, not temporary Band-Aids that prop up an unstable system, and he rejected the notion that the ACA is a model to preserve unchanged.
Johnson didn’t mince words about Obamacare — calling it the Unaffordable Care Act and arguing it “did exactly the opposite” of what was promised to hardworking Americans. That’s not empty rhetoric; he’s pointing to a system where subsidies and mandates have driven up premiums and reduced real access to care in many communities.
On the concrete question of the pandemic-era enhanced premium tax credits, Johnson made clear Republicans are not simply going to print another open-ended check to insurance companies without meaningful reform. The COVID subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year and GOP leaders have put forward alternatives that prioritize transparency, competition, and market-based choices rather than perpetuating a system that rewards middlemen. This debate is playing out amid real divisions in Washington about the best way forward.
Conservatives should be blunt: throwing more money at insurers and bureaucrats won’t fix a broken market. Johnson is right to demand fixes — lower prices come from freer markets, less federal interference, tort reform, and policies that put patients and doctors, not insurance executives, back in charge. Americans who work for a living want solutions that lower premiums and improve care, not political theater and permanent entitlement expansions.
Johnson also used the platform to touch on the critical issue of U.S.-China trade, warning that economic policy and national security are intertwined and that America must not be naive on the global stage. While some in Washington flirt with half-measures, the administration’s talks with Beijing and the need for tough, principled negotiation show that the GOP understands tariffs and leverage are tools to protect American industry and sovereignty.
If Republicans are serious about delivering on what voters sent them to Washington to do, they must unify behind pro-growth, pro-family reforms instead of caving to Democrat blackmail or reflexive spending. Johnson’s stance — insistence on reform before more subsidy giveaways — is the responsible conservative path, and it’s exactly what the country needs to pull healthcare off the cliff of insolvency and poor outcomes.
This moment asks patriots whether they’ll tolerate more broken promises and rising costs, or whether they’ll back leaders who fight for competition, transparency, and American jobs. Speaker Johnson has thrown down a gauntlet for reform; now it’s up to principled Republicans and the voters who put them there to finish the job and stop the cycles of failure that have plagued American healthcare for far too long.
