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TOPEKA –  As Kansans feel the fallout of Senator Roger Marshall’s health care crisis, which will cause health care costs for 159,923 Kansans to skyrocket, Marshall called efforts to address health care affordability “disappointing” and “a horrible idea.” He was even caught on camera backslapping his colleagues and laughing as he voted to spike healthcare costs. Kansans from Johnson City to Johnson County are now facing skyrocketing health care prices created by Marshall’s health care crisis.

“Roger Marshall just told 159,000 Kansans struggling with rising health care costs that efforts to help them is ‘a horrible idea,’’’ Lauren Fitzgerald, Managing Director of Kansas Coalition for Common Sense, said. “He is so out of touch that he’d rather watch Kansans’ health care costs skyrocket than work with Democrats to lower them. Families across Kansas are tired of his excuses and deserve a Senator who will finally put them first.”

Moments after his vote, Marshall told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that he would “absolutely not” vote to keep health care affordable for Kansans by extending ACA tax credits. 

Marshall is called out in his home state’s largest paper by Kansans who say his stance is just the latest example of his “inability to promote solutions to complex problems other than cutting taxes for the rich and large corporations, and running up deficits.”

See for yourself:

The Kansas City Star (Opinion): Shutdown pain proves the markets won’t help people on their own
By Tom Leonard
November 11, 2025

• As of Monday, the longest federal government shutdown appears to be coming to an end. Democrats accepted a promise from Republicans for a vote by mid-December to extend ACA subsidies, but the funding bill to reopen does not include extending the subsidies.
• Most Americans (78%) support extending the tax credits according to a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation in October.
• Sen. Roger Marshall has long been a proponent of repealing the ACA, and does not support extending the subsidies. Much like every other Republican, he has not yet put forward any concrete plan on what they would replace it with. 
• The ACA subsidies are an example of what happens when the government chooses to solve problems instead of pretending markets will fix them. The program, and other policies, are far from perfect, but they reflect a realistic governing philosophy: progress requires investment. 

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