Inside the Senate’s last-gasp effort to solve the health care crisis

AXIOS January 6, 2026
Stef W. Kight

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) isn’t giving up on a health care plan that can win 35 Senate Republicans and a majority of Democrats — but he and a small bipartisan group have about three weeks left to find it.

Why it matters: Enhanced ACA subsidies have expired, which will raise health care costs for millions of Americans. But key negotiators see a final chance to revive them.

• “We’re on the clock,” Moreno told Axios in an interview. “We’re not going to talk about this past January — like, we either make a deal this month or we don’t make a deal.”
• “It may be we don’t make a deal,” he acknowledged, given the political atmosphere. He won’t push...

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