Separate Senate Republican contingents are floating competing proposals on health care, as the party struggles to unify behind a plan to stop looming premium hikes. GOP leaders are faced with a political dilemma: Either they extend the subsidies and endorse ObamaCare, which Republicans have long opposed, or they let the subsidies expire ahead of next...
Affordable Care Act
ACA approval hits new high: Gallup
More Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) than at any point since it took effect more than a decade ago, according to a new Gallup survey. In the survey, released Monday, 57 percent of respondents approve, and 35 percent of respondents disapprove of the landmark legislation, which, the survey notes, was “signed into...
A way forward for making health insurance more affordable
After 43 days of a government shutdown, eight Democratic senators crossed the aisle and voted in favor of a Republican bill to extend the enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, which are set to expire on Dec. 31, 2025, while the core issue of expensive health insurance and care remains unaddressed.
Bipartisan Obamacare deal remains out-of-reach in Senate hearing
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Bipartisan Obamacare deal remains out-of-reach in Senate hearing The clock is ticking on Congress to extend expiring ObamaCare enhanced subsidies. Senators in both parties Wednesday acknowledged the need for a bipartisan deal; it just doesn’t seem like they...
For Republicans, it’s crunch time on health care
For Republicans, it’s crunch time on ObamaCare. GOP leaders return to Capitol Hill this week facing a year-end deadline on Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies without a unified plan for how — or even whether — to extend the expiring benefits for millions of Americans. The debate is pitting Republicans concerned with delivering on "affordability"...
A Republican plan for affordable health care
Republicans have successfully blocked Democrats' efforts to reauthorize the Affordable Care Act's enhanced subsidies, and are now looking to introduce their own health care reforms, such as large HSAs, health insurance deregulation, and allowing ObamaCare to become a high-risk pool.
House Republican asks Thune, Schumer to work on bipartisan ObamaCare subsidies extension bill
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) on Wednesday urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to work across party lines to secure an extension for ObamaCare premium subsidies. “As Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, I write to you today to extend my hand of cooperation in our very...
Health care premiums are rising — but we’re missing the real problem
As millions of Americans open notices about their 2026 health insurance premiums, the sticker shock is real. Average out-of-pocket premiums are expected to more than double — $888 annually in 2025 to $1,904 in 2026 — due to the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. The political fight over these subsidies has dominated headlines and even triggered a government shutdown.
But as Washington debates the critical question of how much Americans should pay for health ...
Bessent says no formal ACA plan proposed despite Trump’s social media posts
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that he’s seen no formal proposal to overhaul the Affordable Care Act (ACA) despite President Trump’s latest call to nix the program and to direct the funds, instead, into the pockets of the American people.
“We don't have a formal proposal,” Bessent said in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, when asked about Trump’s recent remarks.
Trump on Saturday appeared to wade into the ongoing s...
Live updates: Republicans, Democrats in deadlock over shutdown; Trump doubles down on nixing filibuster
Senate Republicans are in a deadlock with Democrats after pressure tactics to end the 38-day government shutdown failed to break the impasse.
The chamber is meeting for a rare Saturday session as lawmakers hope to hash out a deal.
Senate Republicans are batting around various ideas to break the stalemate, such as voting on a new Senate-drafted bill that would fund a large swath of the federal government through fiscal year 2026.
They rejected a Democrat...