Speaker Johnson Unveils Health Care Plan as Divided GOP Scrambles for Alternative
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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 declines 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.
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