Rep. Jason Smith

Well, first, let me just respond to the fact that Republicans, if they completely had their way, they would actually want to reduce the amount of funding from Biden levels.

But that's not how it's able to work up here with the 60 vote rule over in the United States Senate.

And so that was our issue.

In regards to the subsidies for insurance companies, this is something that we've been willing to discuss throughout this whole time.

And it's

something that needs a lot of discussion because access to health care is essential for Americans.

We need to make sure that we're talking about access for all Americans, not just 24 million Americans, but 347 million Americans.

I would not be support of a one-year extension, period, without reforms.

There has to be reforms.

The corruption that's within the program, there's 24 million people that are on the Obamacare exchanges.

Half of them last year, that's 12 million, didn't even file a claim.

Why did those 12 million not file a claim?

I'm sure it's because they didn't even know that they were on the exchanges.

But guess what?

Those insurance companies...

They received the subsidized premiums for it even though they didn't even provide the health care for it.

These are the simple kind of reforms that need to be addressed and need to be explained.

We also shouldn't be subsidizing premiums for people who make more than 400 percent of the federal poverty level, people who make $600,000 a year.

I don't think Americans are good with that.

You know, everything has to be looked at and has to be on the table.