Asked by an audience member about health care, Megyn Kelly admits that “the Republicans, they do not have a plan”
Kelly eventually says of the Affordable Care Act that “they should scrap the whole nightmare and just start anew”
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Asked by an audience member about health care, Megyn Kelly admits that "the Republicans, they do not have a plan"
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From the November 7, 2025, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show, recorded live on November 6, 2025
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Thank you, Megyn, for taking my question, and I'm a follower. I'm here with my friend, Kelly, that told me about your show last July and so I've been a big fan since. So, thank you.
I also follow 2Way, which I found on your network, and so this is based on one of their conversations. It's a question about health care. They've mentioned a bunch of times, mostly Sean, about the Republicans not having a way forward with health care. They keep saying repeal Obamacare, but they don't have a good thing to replace it with.
So it's a two-part question. Do you agree with that statement? And can you have someone on your show that would talk kind of through what we can do for health care going forward, especially with the affordability thing going on? So what we can do for health care.
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Yeah. Yes. I can. Thank you for the suggestion. And, they're not wrong. The Republicans, they do not have a plan.
Now we're dealing with this government shutdown right now because the pain of Obamacare and all the, you know, new provisions that Obama put in place is about to come due. All these years later, you know, he's elected in 2008, right? So it's been how many years? I can't do the math that quickly. But he, they postponed all the pain, much of it from Obamacare till now by these subsidies that would falsely prop up people who are using Obamacare into being able to pay these premiums. And now they're about to go away. And the truth of Obamacare, which is that it's ridiculously expensive, is about to become known. And they're scrambling on team blue to prevent you from feeling that and seeing that knowing they're the ones that did it to you.
Unfortunately, the Republicans are in the position of having to either watch the American people suffer and say they did it, or do something to help, right? To help solve a Democrat-created problem. And honestly, my own view is they should scrap the whole nightmare and just start anew. No one wanted this thing to begin with. It jacked up so many people's prices and cost of health care. It did divide us from our doctors and our plans, which became crappier and covered less. And so while now you can get preexisting conditions covered, it created a whole host of other problems with which we have not dealt.
And look, you could take the money we're sending to Ukraine. You could take the money that we devote to other, you know, European and other countries to try to save them, and devote some of that to American health care. But I think there is going to have to be some help for the people who are not gonna be able to handle their health care once these subsidies are removed because you didn't put yourself in this position. The Democrats did this to you, and you don't deserve to just twist on the vine.