Hill December 8, 2025
Separate Senate Republican contingents are floating competing proposals on health care, as the party struggles to unify behind a plan to stop looming premium hikes.
GOP leaders are faced with a political dilemma: Either they extend the subsidies and endorse ObamaCare, which Republicans have long opposed, or they let the subsidies expire ahead of next year’s midterms and deal with the fallout.
Some Republicans want a deal to preserve the enhanced subsidies, heading off voter ire and preventing an election-year nightmare scenario for the GOP. Others want the enhanced subsidies to expire and be replaced by direct cash to Americans, convinced they can blame Democrats for high costs.
On Monday, GOP Sens. Bernie Moreno (Ohio) and Susan Collins (Maine) introduced...
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