Senate fails to pass health care bills
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Two dueling proposals to ease rising health care costs failed to pass out of the Senate on Thursday. Now, the House is under even more pressure to find a fix.
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Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans
Senators on Thursday rejected a Democratic bill to extend the subsidies for three years and a Republican alternative that would have created new health savings accounts.
The Senate is set to vote on dueling health care proposals. Both plans are likely to fail, even as Affordable Care Act premiums are set to skyrocket at the end of the year.
With the deadline to address expiring ACA tax credits fast approaching, GOP's John Thune announced that two competing health care plans will get a vote later this week.
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.
Democrats, meanwhile, blocked a competing GOP bill on Thursday that would have bolstered health savings accounts instead.
The Senate failed to advance two competing health care proposals aimed at addressing a spike in costs expected for tens of millions of Americans who receive enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits.
The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week. Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire and would replace them with new savings accounts.
Republican Senate candidates aren’t on the same page about extending Obamacare subsidies, reflecting a broader tension that is creeping into House and Senate races.
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