MedPage Today December 15, 2025
Time is running out for action
The Senate failed to get anywhere on healthcare last week. Now it’s the House’s turn to show what it can do.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) 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 (ACA), also called Obamacare, which are expiring at the end of the year. Those subsidies help lower the cost of coverage.
Johnson huddled behind closed doors in the morning on Friday — as he did earlier in the week — working to assemble the package for consideration as the House focuses the final days of its 2025 work on healthcare.
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