LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (MI-07) is commenting after Michigan Households for Honest Care gathered outdoors his Lansing workplace final week to induce him to help decreasing well being care prices and reopening the federal authorities.
Final week, Michigan Households for Honest Care rallied, with organizers saying that insurance policies that Barrett voted for will result in medical insurance premiums on plans bought by way of the Reasonably priced Care Act market growing by a median of 131%. Barrett, nevertheless, says this wasn’t a results of Republican coverage.
“The only reason why some Michiganders are receiving notices that their health insurance premiums may increase is because Affordable Care Act tax credits put in place by the Biden administration were intentionally set to expire after the COVID-19 pandemic,” mentioned Barrett.
Barrett says he’s open to dialogue, however says the shutdown wants to finish earlier than any negotiations happen.
“While I’m open to discussing these tax credits and the cost of health care in our country, that conversation cannot happen in good faith while my colleagues across the aisle continue voting to keep the government shut down,” mentioned Barrett. “I voted with a bipartisan majority within the Home and Senate to fund the federal government, and I hope Senate Democrats will come to their senses and do the identical.
The Senate on Monday blocked a GOP-drafted Home invoice to fund the federal government till November 52-42, with it needing 60 votes to advance. Democrats are demanding the invoice embody extensions to the expiring ACA premium tax credit. Monday’s vote was the fifth vote to fail within the Senate.
Republicans say the invoice they handed was “clean” and nonpartisan, meant solely to maintain the federal government funding.
“We passed a clean continuing resolution or clean CR. No gimmicks, no games. We didn’t put a bunch of our partisan ideas or wish lists or projects in the CR,” mentioned Home Republican Convention Chairwoman Lisa McClain (MI-09). “It was a clean CR, just a simple bill to keep things running while we finished our work on the 12 funding bills, and quite simply, Democrats killed it.”
Michigan Democrats, although, are putting the blame on congressional Republicans.
“If you’re so afraid to lower premiums for people, if you’re so afraid to actually, you know the results of what a bill that you passed is that you have to lie to the American people in such a brazen way that I think every media, every regional media source has said this is false,” mentioned Curtis Hertel Jr, Chair of the Michigan Democratic Get together. “But they just continue saying it because they can’t give you the real explanation.”
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