Health care is one of the most intractable issues in Congress

Washington – Washington (AP) – Democrats think that health care is a problem that resonates with the majority of Americans because they require an extension of subsidies in exchange for their votes to reopen the closed American government. But it is also one of the most insoluble problems in congress – and a real compromise in the middle of the government closure will probably not be easy or fast.

There are Republicans at Congress who wish to extend the higher subsidies, which were set up for the first time in 2021 in the middle of the COVVI-19 pandemic, because millions of people receive their insurance through the markets of the affordable care law should receive opinions that their premiums will increase at the start of the year. But many GOP legislators are strongly opposed to any extension – and see debate as a new opportunity to completely reduce the program.

“If the Republicans govern by a survey and fail to grasp this moment, they will have it,” wrote the representative of Texas Chip Roy, a republican, in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal during the weekend. He encouraged senators not to go “wobbly” on the issue.

“The template is in place, the pandemic is over and my colleagues should not clig eyes in another direction,” wrote Roy.

The Republicans fought against the Act respecting affordable care, the law on health care of former President Barack Obama, since his promulgation 15 years ago. But although they were able to keep it away, they could not change it substantially, because 24 million people are now registered in insurance coverage via ACA, largely because billions of dollars in grants have made the plans more affordable for many people.

Now, some of them see the struggle of Democrats as their chance of reviewing the question – to put the Republican leaders of the Congress and President Donald Trump in a complicated position while the government closes in his seventh day and hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not remunerated.

“I am happy to work with the Democrats on their failed health policies, or anything else, but they must first allow our government to reopen,” wrote Trump on social networks Monday evening, coming back from comments earlier that there were negotiations in progress with the Democrats.

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., said on several occasions that the Republicans were open to extend the subsidies, with reforms, if the Democrats would reopen the government. But he refused to negotiate until it happens – and suggested that Trump will be the key to the possible result.

Thune told journalists on Monday: “There can be a way to go” on ACA’s subsidies, but underlined: “I think a lot would come down where the White House landed on this subject.”

Many GOP senators argue that the only way to follow is to revise the law. “The whole problem with all of this is Obamacare,” said Florida senator Rick Scott.

Most of the House Republicans agree and the president of the Mike Johnson room was not engaged in discussions.

“Obamacare does not work,” said Johnson on “Meet The Press” by NBC. “We are trying to repair it.”

Democrats believe that public feeling is on their side and argues that Trump and the Republicans will have to come to the negotiating table as people registered on the program, many of whom live in districts and republican states, are informed that their prices will increase.

“All I can tell you is that the Americans feel very deeply resolving this health care crisis,” said Schumer after the Senate rejected a bill sentenced to the House to reopen the government for the fifth time on Monday evening. “Each survey that we have seen shows that they want us to do it, and they believe that the Republicans are much more responsible for the closure than us.”

With leaders in disagreement, some basic senators in the two parties were in private talks to try to find a way to get out of the closure. The Republican Senator Mike Rounds of the southern Dakota suggested extending the subsidies for a year, then eliminating them. The president of the Senate credit committee, Susan Collins, R-Maine, suggested advancing a group of bipartite spending bills that are pending and a commitment to discuss the question of health care.

But many Democrats say that a commitment is not good enough, and the Republicans say they need deeper reforms – leaving the talks and the US government, to stop.

Maine Senator Angus King, an independent who caucates democrats, voted with the Republicans to keep the government open. But he said on Monday that he could pass his vote to “no” if the Republicans “do not offer real solid evidence that they will help us in this crisis” on health care.

Republican senator Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma said his party “did not move”, however. “First and foremost, before they can talk about anything, they have to reopen the government.”

However, some Republicans say they are ready to extend subsidies – even if they do not like them – because it becomes clear that their voters will be faced with the increase in costs.

“I am ready to consider various reforms, but I think we have to do something,” said Republican senator Josh Hawley of Missouri. He said the congress should tackle the question “as soon as possible” before the start of the registration opened on November 1.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA., Said that she was “not a fan” of Obamacare but said that she could vote to extend it.

“I am going to go against everyone on this issue, because when tax credits expire this year, my insurance premiums for adult children for 2026 will double, as well as all the wonderful families and the people who work hard in my district,” she published social media on Monday evening.