US EditionWelch Among Lawmakers Preparing to Vote on Dueling Health Care Bills
Republicans back a plan to let COVID-era ACA subsidies expire while GOP and Democratic proposals offer shorter extensions amid a looming Jan. 1 deadline.
- On Thursday, the U.S. Senate will vote on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies after Republicans said Tuesday they united around a plan allowing COVID-19-era subsidies to expire.
- Republicans have circulated multiple proposals including a two-year extension with income caps from Sens. Susan Collins, R‑Maine, and Bernie Moreno, R‑Ohio, but despite bipartisan desire, no high-level talks have occurred; Vermont Sen. Peter Welch seeks a three-year extension.
- Neither measure appears likely to reach the 60 votes Senate threshold, as Sen. Ruben Gallego said the Collins‑Moreno bill lacks GOP support and Sen. Tim Kaine warned failed votes could open new talks.
- Political pressure is mounting for lawmakers to pass a solution as some senators warned a failed vote would be the end of the road for keeping the subsidies.
- It might be too late for a solution by Jan. 1 with the U.S. Senate scheduled to leave town at the end of next week, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R‑Alaska, suggested cobbling overlapping ideas together while observers said Thursday will look like a partisan mess.
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WASHINGTON—The Senate is poised for a Dec. 11 vote on competing measures to resolve the standoff over extending the expiring subsidies for Obamacare. Both are likely to fall along party lines, and to fail to reach the 60-vote threshold required to advance legislation in the Senate. The subsidies, officially known as enhanced premium tax credits, were created as a temporary measure in 2021 to blunt the economic impact of the COVID-19 national hea…
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What comes after the failed Senate health vote
The NewsToday is failure theater in the Senate. Democrats’ three-year extension of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies isn’t going anywhere and neither is the Republican plan for health savings accounts. But could there be a second act? “I guess we have to demonstrate our failures first before we can apply our successes,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, one of the more optimistic voices. There’s a palpable distrust underlying the entire e…
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