Report: House Republican Healthcare Bill Lowers Obamacare Premiums by 12 Percent, Saves $30 Billion

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Report: House Republican Healthcare Bill Lowers Obamacare Premiums by 12 Percent, Saves $30 Billion

Sean Moran 15 Dec 2025

The House Republican healthcare bill would lower the most common Obamacare-level plan by 12 percent and would save taxpayers $30 billion, according to a report.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Republicans last week unveiled the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, the House GOP model to lower healthcare costs.

Johnson said in a statement last week:

    Nearly 15 years ago, the Democrats’ Unaffordable Care Act broke the American health care system. Since its inception, premium costs have skyrocketed, networks have shrunk, and the system has become bloated, inefficient, and riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse. While Democrats demand that taxpayers write bigger checks to insurance companies to hide the cost of their failed law, House Republicans are tackling the real drivers of health care costs to provide affordable care, increase access and choice, and restore integrity to our nation’s health care system for all Americans.

    Earlier this year, Democrats had a chance to help make life more affordable by supporting the Working Families Tax Cuts legislation. Instead, they voted to raise taxes, protect waste and fraud, and continue providing free health care to illegal immigrants. Democrats’ ‘affordability’ charade has gone on long enough. Republicans are offering clear, responsible alternatives that will lower premium costs and increase access and health care options for all Americans. The Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act will actually deliver affordable health care — and we look forward to advancing it through the House.

The House Republican bill would:

    Increase transparency for pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)
    Appropriate cost-sharing reduction payments (CSRs) that would lower premiums
    Expand access to Health Association Plans (AHPs) that would allow self-employed workers and other membership-based organizations such as Costco, Amazon, or Sam’s Club to create their own health insurance pools
    Ensure small- and mid-sized employers can protect themselves from catastrophic claims
    Codify first Trump term-era rules that would allow employers to offer defined contributions to employees to purchase their own health insurance

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/15/report-house-republican-healthcare-bill-lowers-obamacare-premiums-by-12-percent-saves-30-billion/

[Hoodat]

Only $30 billion?  Think how much money you could save if you got rid of Obamacare altogether.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

ANY funding will continue the fraud. 

Federal funding of welfare must stop.

PERIOD.

[Hoodat]

With a name like 'Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act', you can be guaranteed that this bill will raise health care premiums for all Americans.  Think of how much more affordable health care was before they passed the Affordable Health Care Act.

You want lower health care costs?  Then start by getting government the hell out of it.

[Wingnut]

There is nothing more permanent than a short term Government program or subsidy.