GOP, House and Affordable Care Act
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U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is the lead sponsor on a GOP bill aimed at making health care more affordable, without extending ACA subsidies.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks joined House GOP leaders to promote a health care overhaul they say would lower premiums and curb costs tied to the Affordable Care Act. But as Congress debates alternatives to extending ACA subsidies,
Affordable Care Act subsidies will expire at the end of the year, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., effectively confirmed Tuesday—meaning premiums for enrollees will soon skyrocket. Johnson told reporters lawmakers “worked on it all the way through the weekend . . . and in the end there was not an agreement—it wasn’t made.”
Senators rejected a Democratic bill to extend ACA subsidies for three years and a Republican alternative that would have created new health savings accounts.
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