As The Hill reported earlier this week, Republicans are barreling toward a vote on health care with the ACA subsidies expiring without a clear plan:
Some Senate Republicans are expressing frustration that their conference hasn’t been able to unify behind a health care plan ahead of a vote next week on a Democratic proposal to extend health insurance premium subsidies that will expire in January.
Republicans are worried the subsidies, and health insurance and costs more broadly, could become a major issue in the 2026 midterms that — in a worst-case scenario — could cost them the Senate majority.
The GOP has no consensus on how to proceed on the issue, which may spur a group of Republican senators to cross the aisle next week and vote for a Democratic bill to extend the subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Republicans say they won’t have their alternative proposal to address rapidly rising insurance premiums ready in time for next week’s vote, leaving some GOP senators dissatisfied about the lack of a clear strategy to counter the Democrats’ bill. […]
Cassidy has unveiled a proposal to leave the original ACA premium tax credits in place but convert funding for the enhanced premium tax credits into contributions to health savings accounts that Americans could use to pay out-of-pocket health care costs.
