Common Ground: Fixing Healthcare, Lowering Costs
December 25, 2025
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December 25, 2025
Common Ground: Fixing Healthcare, Lowering Costs
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Bret Baier Episodes Around December 25, 2025
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Common Ground: Fixing Healthcare, Lowering Costs
Summary
As Republicans face increasing pressure to put forth a healthcare solution, four in the party broke ranks with the rest and joined a Democrat-led discharge petition, which would force a vote on a three-year extension of COVID-Era Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of January. One of those Republicans, Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY), spoke to Bret alongside Congressman Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) last week to explain his support for temporarily extending the subsidies, despite the potential backlash it could bring from the rest of his party.
The discharge petition passed on December 17, 2025, although a vote on extending the ACA subsidies has not yet been scheduled.
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