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Nearly 39 days into the government shutdown, Republican after Republican took the floor Saturday to blast the affordable care law, known as Obamacare, calling the program a failed way to address the nation’s health needs.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rs.C., went so far as to say that the current system may need to be replaced.
“You were promised when Obamare passed in 2010, said President Obama, that every family in America who participated in the money that was saving $ 2,500. This thing means that.
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Senator Lindsey Graham speaks during a press conference at Saint Michael’s Square in the city center on May 30, 2025 in Kyiv, Ukraine. A bipartisan delegation from the USA, including Democratic Senator Richard Bluncenhal and Republican Senator Lindoy Graham, arrived in Kyiv to visit (Viktor Kovachuk / Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
“We’re going to replace this broken system with something that’s better for the consumer to meet the goal of lowering health care costs,” Graham said.
Graham was not the only Republican voice to speak out against Obamacare.
“I hate to report that people on the other side have refused to acknowledge the obvious damage done across the board by Obamacare,” said Sen. Ron Johnson, you say. “The problem we have in health care is that we are driven too much by free market principles in health care. That is because of the flawed design of Obamacare. It has to be fixed.”
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“It’s all because of Obamacare. When the government gets involved in things, they tend to go up in price,” Scot said.
Notably, the Republican criticism of Obamacare on Saturday went beyond the previous issue and the areas holding the government’s money processing.
Where Republicans have advanced when using short-term funding to keep the government open on Nov. 21, which Democrats have rejected 14 times, wants lawmakers to first consider extending the emergency Obamacare tax bill.
Republicans, who maintain the temporary and expiring subsidies have nothing to do with federal spending, are more focused on reopening themselves instead of the Avoli-ERA bailout. They say they will discuss the subsidy when the government opens.
But President Donald Trump changed the image on Saturday morning in the area of sending social reality by opposing the funding of advanced policies so that they can carry out policy tasks.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a breakfast with the Senate and House Republicans in the white dining room of the White House, Wednesday, November 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Evan vucci / ap photo)
After Trump’s proposal, lawmakers began blasting the Obamacare structure.
“ObamaCare is costing the federal government close to $150 billion a year. That’s right. We’re spending fifteen of your dollars on other people’s care,” said R-Kan.
“When they sold this to the Americans, they said it would cost $40 or $50 billion, but we tripled it. That’s $400 million a day,” he added.
Sen. JONI Ernst, R-IOWA, found that comment, arguing that Obamacare had missed the mark in its original design.
“It’s clear that Obamacare has failed to deliver on its promises,” Erst said. “The answer is not throwing more money at a broken system. What we need to do is fix what’s broken. We can get rid of that mess.”
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Ernst is chairman of the Doge Caucus. (Reuters)
Like Ernst and Marshall, Sen. Jon sat, R-Ohio., and took Congress to examine the source of rising health care costs.
“So, I hope we want to get the cost and the root cause of what’s affecting health care inefficiency in this country to start at 3% a year and start at or below,” Hunted said.
“I hope we can open up the government and start serving the American people as we continue the very important conversation about how to make health care more affordable,” he added.
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Although the leader of Sen. Majority John tune, Rs.d., kept the Senate in session over the weekend while the lawmakers tried to break the gridlock, it is not clear if the lawmakers will consider spending the law.
