Senate Republicans plan vote on a health care alternative

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Live updates: Senate shoots down dueling health care plans as Obamacare deadline approaches
The Senate on Thursday failed to advance competing health care plans, as enhanced ObamaCare tax subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year.  Both proposals failed largely along party lines.

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Senate Republicans plan vote on a health care alternative as ACA funds look likely to expire
Senate Republicans unveil plan to replace Obamacare subsidies with health savings accounts
The Senate Is Set to Vote on Two Rival Health Plans. Here's What's at Stake for Americans
When the U.S. Senate votes on rival, partisan health bills on Thursday, they’ll have two chances to address expiring COVID-era subsidies that will otherwise result in millions of Americans saddled wit...

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The health care affordability wars
Democrats’ Proposal to Extend Enhanced ACA Subsidies Fails in Senate
Senate poised to reject extension of health care subsidies as costs rise for many
Instead, the Senate is expected to vote on two partisan bills and defeat them both — essentially guaranteeing that many who buy their health insurance on the ACA marketplaces see a steep rise in costs...

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A divided GOP forges ahead on health care message — without plan to address spiking premiums
Senate heads toward dueling partisan votes on health care, with each likely to fail

House GOP health care package will exclude ACA subsidy extension

House GOP leaders will bring a vote next week on a package of health care bills that does not include an extension of expiring ObamaCare enhanced subsidies, as Republicans remain divided about how

Congress flails on health care as Obamacare deadline looms

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.
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Republicans are torn over health care. Here’s what we know

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.

Tuberville says Obamacare ‘destroyed’ health care: ‘It’s a piece of sh--’

The subsidies’ expiration will result in premiums doubling and 130,000 Alabamians losing access to health care.
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Concepts of Health Care Plans → Humiliation Trying to Pass Them

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.

GOP unveils plan for 'Trump Health Freedom Accounts' to replace Obamacare subsidies with state waivers

House GOP Rep. August Pfluger unveils the "More Affordable Care Act" to let states replace Obamacare with "Trump Health Freedom Accounts" and cross-state healthcare shopping options.