Marjorie Taylor Greene continues healthcare push amid shutdown

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Friday continued her campaign to get the GOP to embrace healthcare reform as the Democrats highlight the issue during the government shutdown.

"Health Insurance is a scam and is failing everyone while the insurance companies make huge profits," Greene posted. "They get paid directly from the government, on the front end, for every person.
Democrats created this problem in 2010, made it worse in 2021, and Republicans have never fixed it."

Her 2010 comment appeared to refer to the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement.

Greene has, in recent days, excoriated the GOP for its failure to address rising healthcare costs or to even articulate much in the way of policy to deal with it.

The government shutdown began after the Senate failed to approve a continuing resolution to fund the government at current levels. Democrats have insisted they want to restore funding to healthcare programs that they say Republicans cut.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.