Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story House revives enhanced ACA subsidies, puts pressure on Senate The House on Thursday voted to revive the enhanced ObamaCare tax credits for three years, in a rebuke of GOP leadership that is boosting hopes of centrist Republicans for...
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House revives enhanced ACA subsidies, puts pressure on Senate
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story House revives enhanced ACA subsidies, puts pressure on Senate The House on Thursday voted to revive the enhanced ObamaCare tax credits for three years, in a rebuke of GOP leadership that is boosting hopes of centrist Republicans for...
US House breaks with Trump to revive Affordable Care Act subsidies
Seventeen Republicans join Democrats to pass a three-year extension of tax credits cutting ACA premiums
The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation to re-establish tax credits that lowered premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans, after a small group of Republicans broke ranks and joined with Democrats to defy Donald Trump on a key healthcare issue that could sway voters ahead of the November midterm elections.
The chamber voted 230-196 to approve a bill that would extend for three years the credits, which were first created under Joe Biden but expired at the end of last year despite a concerted effort by the Democratic minority to continue them.
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House passes 3-year extension of ObamaCare subsidies
The House passed legislation Thursday to revive and extend expired ObamaCare tax credits in a bipartisan vote that is boosting hopes of centrist Republicans for a bipartisan deal to revive the tax credits. The tally, 230 to 196, highlighted the tenuous grip Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has over his restive GOP conference. Seventeen centrist Republicans crossed the aisle to...
Are House discharge petitions effective?
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has launched a petition drive to extend the ObamaCare subsidies that expired on Jan. 1, and after achieving 218 signatures, the petition is now ripe for consideration on the House discharge calendar.
Live updates: House greenlights ACA subsidies extension with backing of 17 Republicans
The House on Thursday approved the renewal of the expired ObamaCare subsidies, delivering a blow to Republican leadership and underlining conference divides. Seventeen Republicans joined 213 Democrats in support of the three-year extension after the Affordable Care Act tax credits lapsed at the end of last year. The bill, which passed 230-196, will now head...
GOP moderate rebels hope vote to extend ObamaCare credits fuels bipartisan deal
The House is poised to pass legislation Thursday extending contentious ObamaCare tax credits for three years, marking a hard-fought victory for Democrats and fueling hope among centrist Republicans that it will lead to a bipartisan compromise to revive the subsidies. The proposal has no chance of moving through the Senate as-is. The same three-year extension...
House to vote on renewing ACA subsidies as a potential deal takes shape in the Senate
While the three-year extension for Affordable Care Act subsidies is expected to pass the House, it may not go far in the Senate. But a bipartisan group of senators say they are close on a compromise.
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These nine Republicans back Democrats’ effort to revive ObamaCare subsidies
Nine House Republicans voted on Wednesday to compel the lower chamber to vote on a Democratic bill to revive ObamaCare subsidies after they expired at the start of the new year. Republican Reps. Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Nicolas LaLota (N.Y.) Robert Bresnahan (Penn.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Ryan Mackenzie (Penn.), María Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Max Miller (Ohio),...
Abortion, minimum premiums emerge as sticking points in Senate ObamaCare talks
Senate Democrats say they have concerns about some of the parameters of an emerging plan to extend enhanced ObamaCare subsidies that expired Jan. 1, even as at least one of the Republican negotiators said draft legislation could come next week. One of the main sticking points for Democrats appears to be the elimination of $0 premium plans, which Republicans insist is needed to combat fraud. Under the emerging deal, according to Sen. Bernie Moreno...