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States reveal SHOCKING health care cost spikes under Republican plan · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: The Republican controlled House of Representatives announced today that they
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  Speaker 1: will take a fifth straight week of previously unplanned vacation
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  Speaker 1: next week. Now, to be clear, there is nothing about
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  Speaker 1: the government shutdown that requires Congress to be out of session.
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  Speaker 1: They're supposed to be in session, but for a fifth
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  Speaker 1: straight week, they are calling in sick, canceling class, refusing
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  Speaker 1: to convene in the House, and perhaps not incidentally, refusing
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  Speaker 1: to swear in the new member of Congress from Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: at Alita Grijalva, who won a special election last month.
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  Speaker 1: But they won't allow her to be sworn in, and
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  Speaker 1: they won't say why, but Democrats will say why. They
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  Speaker 1: think it is, and it's because she would be the
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and eighteenth and therefore the deciding vote to
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  Speaker 1: force a release of the Epstein files, in which President
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  Speaker 1: Trump himself reportedly plays a fairly starring role. Trump's attorney
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  Speaker 1: general has reportedly told him his name appears in the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files multiple times. Trump, perhaps unsurprisingly, is refusing to
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  Speaker 1: release those files. But once Adolita Grielva is sworn in,
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  Speaker 1: they may no longer legally be able to refuse the
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  Speaker 1: release of those files any longer, and so we are
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  Speaker 1: now heading into a fifth straight week of Republicans refusing
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  Speaker 1: to convene the House of Representatives, a fifth straight week
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  Speaker 1: of unplanned vacation, apparently just to try to protect Trump
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  Speaker 1: from whatever is in those Epstein files about him. On
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  Speaker 1: day seventeen of the government shutdown, government workers and military
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  Speaker 1: families are lining up at food pantries all over the country.
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  Speaker 1: Trump is apparently excited to have another crack at firing
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  Speaker 1: the people involved in keeping our nuclear weapons safe. They're
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  Speaker 1: citing the shutdown to go through with an eighty percent
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  Speaker 1: furlough of the National Nuclear Security Administration as of Monday morning. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: they accidentally fired all the National Nuclear Security people right
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of Trump's term in office, and then
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  Speaker 1: they said, oops, we didn't mean to do that, and
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  Speaker 1: they brought them all back. Well, now they are furloughing
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  Speaker 1: all of them. These are the people who keep our
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons safe from you know, theft or going off
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  Speaker 1: when they shouldn't. Yeah, who needs them? Democrats say their
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  Speaker 1: price for relenting on the shutdown is that Republicans need
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  Speaker 1: to reverse their changes to health insurance, their policy changes
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  Speaker 1: that are going to spike people's health insurance costs in
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  Speaker 1: very short order, almost by almost unbelievable amounts. And I
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  Speaker 1: will show you what I mean. States are now starting
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  Speaker 1: to release the actual numbers on what the Republicans' policy
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  Speaker 1: changes have done to health insurance costs with this legislation
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  Speaker 1: that they've passed this year. This is what the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have been making a stink about. You've heard like Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are concerned in the shutdown fight about healthcare costs and
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  Speaker 1: health insurance. You think, like, oh, democrats are always concerned
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  Speaker 1: about health costs. That's nice. I care about health costs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad they're standing up now. It's this specific thing.
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  Speaker 1: You want to know what the Democrats are making a
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  Speaker 1: stink about with the shutdown. You want to know what
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic side is of the fight over the shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: Look at these numbers from the New York Times tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this. This is for the tens of millions
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  Speaker 1: of Americans who get their health insurance through the online marketplaces.
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  Speaker 1: Look based on the newly posted information, meaning the pricing
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  Speaker 1: information that's now being posted in multiple states. A family
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  Speaker 1: of four making one hundred and thirty thousand dollars in Maine.
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  Speaker 1: So you combine the family's income, everybody's salaries you cut
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  Speaker 1: up to do one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, that
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  Speaker 1: family would face an increase in their annual health insurance
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  Speaker 1: premiums next year of sixteen one hundred dollars. That's how
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  Speaker 1: much their health insurance premiums would go up. But maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, that sounds like it's a fairly well
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  Speaker 1: off family, and you think, oh, well, maybe that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: apply to me. I'm not quite in that kind of
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  Speaker 1: a bracket. Well, imagine you're in a couple. You're each
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  Speaker 1: sixty years old, and you put both your salaries together. Combined,
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  Speaker 1: you make eighty five thousand dollars a year. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: one of you's making forty grand a year. Maybe one
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  Speaker 1: of you's making forty five thousand dollars a year. Combined,
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  Speaker 1: your couple's income is eighty five thousand dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: In Maryland, your insurance premium is going to go up
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  Speaker 1: by thirteen thousand, seven hundred dollars. In Minnesota, your insurance
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  Speaker 1: is going to go up by fifteen thousand, five hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 1: In Nevada, it's going to go up by eighteen thousand,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars in Kentucky. The increase for you guys,
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  Speaker 1: as a couple will be that you are expected to
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  Speaker 1: pay an additional twenty three thousand, seven hundred dollars per year.
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  Speaker 1: That is the amount of increase we are looking at
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  Speaker 1: in people's health insurance premiums. Can your family afford just
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  Speaker 1: randomly an additional charge of twenty four thousand dollars for
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  Speaker 1: exactly what you're getting right now for twenty four thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars less than that? I mean, these are insane numbers.
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  Speaker 1: But this is what Republicans, in their policy changes on healthcare,
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  Speaker 1: what they have done to health insurance costs, And this
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  Speaker 1: specifically is what Democrats have been screaming bloody murder about.
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  Speaker 1: This is what Democrats have been drawing the line about
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  Speaker 1: in the shutdown, telling Republicans that this is the thing
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  Speaker 1: they need to fix. Think they're going to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: Think they will. President Trump doesn't appear real focused on
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  Speaker 1: its assass