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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Dec 12, 2025, 07:40 PM Friday

Speaker Johnson unveils health care plan as divided Republicans scramble for alternative [View all]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it's the House's turn to show what it can do.

Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, a last-minute sprint as his party refuses to extend the enhanced tax subsidies for those who buy policies through the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, which are expiring at the end of the year. Those subsidies help lower the cost of coverage.

Johnson, R-La., huddled behind closed doors in the morning — as he did days earlier this week — working to assemble the package for consideration as the House focuses the final days of its 2025 work on health care.

“House Republicans are tackling the real drivers of health care costs to provide affordable care,” Johnson said in a statement announcing the package. He said it would be voted on next week.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/speaker-johnson-scrambles-health-care-220316241.html



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