On keeping health care coverage affordable, the GOP's Steve Scalise gives away the game
As the ongoing government shutdown nears the two-week mark, the basic elements of the partisan dispute haven’t changed at all. Democrats are still fighting to protect the existing Affordable Care Act subsidies that are poised to expire, and Republicans are still responding that they’ll consider health care talks after the government reopens.
But at the heart of the assurances from GOP leaders is that the party is serious about exploring possible solutions related to the ACA before the year’s end. Democrats don’t believe them — and the latest comments from a key member of the House Republican leadership team made clear that Democratic skepticism is warranted.
In relation to the ACA and the Covid-era subsidies that made coverage even more affordable for millions of American families, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told reporters on Capitol Hill on Friday afternoon:
It’s not worked for families. You don’t answer that by propping it up with hundreds of billions of dollars of insurance company subsidies. Why would you keep pouring billions more tax dollars into a sinkhole when you can find a better way? We actually are working on better alternatives right now to lower premiums for families. That’s where the focus should be, not propping up a failed product called Obamacare.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maddow-blog-keeping-health-care-144555578.html
You guys keep promising "something awesome" but don't do diddly squat.
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with an alternative. They got zip, zilch, nada. 
