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2. So they've run roughshod WITH a small majority and now that's an excuse
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 02:07 PM
Wednesday

This has Hey! We tried!!! but those darn Democrats written all over it


Those proposals included expansion of health savings accounts, association health care plans, reforms to the pharmacy benefit manager industry and price transparency.
Some of those ideas had bipartisan support in the past, but a bill that doesn’t address the expiring subsidies is unlikely to get 60 votes to pass the Senate.
The Senate, meanwhile, is set to vote Thursday on competing Republican and Democratic health care plans — one to extend the subsidies, the other to turn the subsidies into federally funded health savings accounts for people on high-deductible plans. Neither proposal is expected to pass.

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