Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Jen Kiggans did something huge this morning.

Dear John,

Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Jen Kiggans did something huge this morning.

They pulled together a coalition of 35 House members that released the first bipartisan plan to prevent health care premiums from spiking for millions of Americans next month.

Reps. Gottheimer, Kiggans, and their colleagues have been working on this for weeks, including over the Thanksgiving holiday. They produced a “CommonGround” framework that would:

- Extend COVID-era enhanced subsidies to many who buy insurance on Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges.
- Implement new guardrails to crack down on fraud and ensure only qualified beneficiaries access these plans.
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Extend the open enrollment period to next March to ensure people have sufficient time to shop for and buy plans.

You can read the whole framework here. ([link removed] )

These members have also created a clarifying moment that every American should pay attention to.

If your representative or Senator cannot or will not support this framework – or commit to working with Reps. Gottheimer and Kiggans to shape it – they owe you an explanation for what they will support.

Because a bill that gets support from both Democrats and Republicans is the only bill that can become law, and this CommonGround proposal is right now the bipartisan bill with the most support.

Let us all remember how we got here.

When Senate Democrats agreed to reopen the government last month, they got one key concession from Senate Republicans: A promise that Democrats could get a vote on a health care bill in December.

The question, ever since, has been: what will Democrats do with that promise?

Unfortunately, we also learned this morning what Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer plans to do. He offered a take-it-or-leave-it three-year extension of ACA subsidies that he knows has absolutely zero chance of getting support from Republicans. His proposal features no changes to the expanded ACA subsidies and no recognition that Republicans and many Democrats are right to believe an emergency expansion passed during COVID should not just be extended indefinitely. This is nothing more than a “message bill” designed to allow Democrats to campaign against Republicans on health care in the 2026 midterms.

If that is the route other Democrats choose to go, they are gaslighting the American people by claiming to try to solve a problem they have no intention of solving.

For their part, some Republicans are so dug in by their antagonism toward the ACA that they will not support anything that provides subsidies to the exchanges.

To their credit, Reps. Gottheimer and Kiggans’ framework does two essential things that should compel Republicans and Democrats alike to sign on.

1) They solve the immediate problem: Millions of people will see their health insurance premiums spike in a few weeks, unless Congress acts.

2) They propose several additional ideas that lay the groundwork for more comprehensive health care reforms next year.

Time is short. Many states are scheduled to finalize their health insurance exchange offerings by mid-December. Congress may not be able to get this reform passed by then. If they cannot, however, that does not mean they can just walk away. They need a solution passed, and if it takes until January and retroactively allowing people to sign up for plans, so be it.

We hope you will join us in asking your Representative and Senators ([link removed] ) if they support the Gottheimer-Kiggans CommonGround 2025 health care framework. It is time for everyone to go on the record to show whether they are willing to lead.

Sincerely,

Dan Webb

No Labels Board

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