Senate negotiators are set for a high-wire act on health care in the coming weeks after leaving Washington for the holidays without a resolution on the expiring enhanced subsidies, with lawmakers increasingly shifting into campaign mode as the calendar flips to the new year. The chamber has been consumed for months by a fight over...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said he would leave it to the American people to decide whether they blame Republicans for the lapse in enhanced ObamaCare subsidies at the end of the year, but he defended GOP efforts to strike a deal on the issue in recent weeks. In an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of...
House Democrats pressing to extend expiring ObamaCare subsidies are already looking ahead to a looming federal funding deadline as potential leverage in the fight. Both issues are already poised to take center stage on Capitol Hill when Congress returns to Washington next month after the long holiday break. But while the two debates are technically...
President Trump said Friday he plans to hold a meeting with major insurance companies in the coming days in a bid to pressure them to lower prices for consumers who are set to see premium costs soar when ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies expire at the end of the year. “I'm going to call in the insurance companies that are making so much...
More Americans are listing health care as a top priority with Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire by the end of the year, according to a new poll. Almost 4 in 10 U.S. adults named health care or health issues as one of the top five issues they want the government to address in...
The Affordable Care Act has become a government-regulated, government-funded system that has increased premiums, narrowed networks, and added to the national debt, while benefiting insurance giants, and Republicans must pursue bold legislative action to build an alternative system.
Republicans in Congress are jumping off the ObamaCare cliff as they leave Washington without a deal to extend enhanced subsidies for millions of Americans. But the door to a bipartisan deal hasn't been completely shut, and it may not be too late to reverse that increase if a deal is passed early next year, according...
Democratic strategist James Carville on Wednesday said that Republicans are no longer "scared" of President Trump after four GOP House members on Wednesday sided with Democrats to sign a discharge petition forcing a vote to extend expiring ObamaCare subsidies. "Just today, four Republicans broke out to bring up the subsidy vote on the House floor,"...
Top House Democrats on Thursday called on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to hold an immediate vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. The Democrats succeeded this week in forcing a vote on a three-year extension of the ObamaCare tax credits when four centrist...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday morning after Democrats advanced their discharge petition to force a vote on a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies. With the help of some moderate Republicans, Democrats reached the 218-signature threshold needed to move the measure forward, as the COVID-ear enhanced tax credits...