Dr. Mehmet Oz on Monday declined to offer any insights into President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with a new health insurance system. <\/p>\n
Oz, administrator for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo<\/a> that he spent this past weekend working with the White House on a new health care plan for the 24 million people who receive coverage through the ACA. However, Oz did not provide any specifics on what the Republican plan would look like.<\/p>\n \u201cI spent a good part of the weekend with the White House working on exactly the answer to that question,\u201d Oz told Bartiromo<\/a>. “We have lots of great ideas, but I don\u2019t want to show our cards. As the president often says, \u2018Why would I telegraph what we are going to do?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n Oz added that he was \u201cover the moon\u201d after the Senate advanced a compromise bill that would end the government shutdown without extending ACA tax credits that are due to expire on Dec. 31. <\/p>\n Eight members of the Democratic caucus joined Republicans in a 60-40 vote Sunday night to approve a legislative package that would fund the federal government<\/a> through January. <\/p>\n The deal included a commitment that the Senate would hold a mid-December vote on extending the ACA tax credits. The subsidies have been central to Democrats\u2019 demands since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the right thing for the American people,\u201d Oz told Bartiromo. \u201cYou should not be negotiating important issues, in this case, the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid under an extortionary situation where you\u2019re holding the government hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump and his allies have railed against the ACA<\/a> for more than a decade while calling for it to be repealed. Last week, the president again slammed Obamacare<\/a> as the \u201cworst Healthcare anywhere in the world<\/a>\u201d and said that the funding for ACA subsidies should be sent directly to consumers. <\/p>\n \u201cI am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,\u201d Trump said in a post on Truth Social<\/a>. <\/p>\n Health insurance premiums are expected to skyrocket in 2026 once the ACA subsidies expire. Roughly 22 million enrollees out of the 24 million in the marketplace currently receive enhanced tax credits<\/a>.<\/p>\n Average out-of-pocket health insurance premiums are projected to climb from $888 to $1,904 per year \u2014 more than doubling from 2025 to 2026, according to estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Mehmet Oz on Monday declined to offer any insights into President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to replace the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-284159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}