Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies
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The subsidies’ expiration will result in premiums doubling and 130,000 Alabamians losing access to health care.
Congress is almost out of time to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies that would avert skyrocketing health care premiums for tens of millions of Americans next year.
The failure of the dueling partisan plans all but guarantees the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits initiated during the pandemic era.
In about 22 days, a large portion of government health care subsidies expire, affecting the cost and availability of insurance for no less than millions of people. And yet, Congress is set to leave Washington in two weeks.
The Senate on Thursday failed to move two competing health care bills as Affordable Care Act subsidies, which overtook headlines during the record-long government shutdown, are set to expire at
On Tuesday, the Senate failed 51-48 to advance a health savings plan authored by Republican Sens. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.). A Democrat-led, clean, three-year extension of the enhanced ACA subsidies subsequently failed as well, 51-48, but with three Republicans crossing over.
The Senate will vote this week on a GOP bill to put money in health savings accounts, as well as a Democratic bill to extend the expiring ACA subsidies. Both are expected to fail.
Regulations from Obamacare and under the Biden administration not only increased the cost of health care, they’ve also making it more difficult to advance artificial intelligence and other technology in medicine, experts told a House panel Wednesday.
Florida will be the state most affected by the expiration of enhanced Obamacare subsidies. Giving up the fight for health insurance subsidies part of a deal to end a government shutdown. Many Floridians enrolled in the Health Insurance Marketplace will see ...
A number of endangered GOP lawmakers on Wednesday privately pressed Republican leaders to address expiring Covid-era health care subsidies — but faced sharp pushback from the right flank of their party.