{"id":202409,"date":"2025-12-20T19:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202409\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:17:06","slug":"congress-healthcare-fight-carries-big-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202409\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress\u2019 healthcare fight carries big consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Republican members of the US House of Representatives broke ranks and supported Democrats this week to force a vote on healthcare spending. The FT\u2019s US national correspondent Guy Chazan and deputy Washington bureau chief Lauren Fedor explain the ticking clock Congress is facing down on health insurance, and what will happen to Americans if prices increase dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>Mentioned in this podcast:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/as.ft.com\/r\/98d6abc8-9298-4041-a1a0-81bbbcc7fcdf\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018A full-blown crisis\u2019: Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/as.ft.com\/r\/8386cc55-0752-4ab7-9e44-44fbdd020fb6\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US healthcare costs set to leap as senators fail to reach deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/mailto:marc.filippino@ft.com\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Email Marc with your questions<\/a> (Marc.Filippino@FT.com)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ep.ft.com\/newsletters\/56a64b704f693a0300dfab7e\/subscribe\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the FT\u2019s Swamp Notes newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swamp Notes is hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/marc-filippino\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Filippino<\/a>, and produced by Henry Larson. This week\u2019s show was mixed by Kelly Garry. The FT\u2019s acting co head of audio is Topher Forhecz. Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson. <\/p>\n<p>The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>CREDIT: CBS News, NBC News Chicago<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8767ac9a-3a8d-47dc-bc65-9579ff430658\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/accessibility#podcast-transcriptions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View our accessibility guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Republican members of the US House of Representatives broke ranks and supported Democrats this week to force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-202409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}