US Edition4 GOP senators break ranks to vote for Democratic extension of ObamaCare subsidies
Four Republicans joined Democrats to support extending health insurance subsidies benefiting millions, but the bill failed to pass the Senate's 60-vote threshold, risking premium hikes.
- On Thursday, four Republican senators, including Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senator , and Dan Sullivan, U.S. Senator , joined Democrats to back extending the enhanced premium tax credits, but the U.S. Senate measure failed to reach the 60-vote threshold.
- Passed in 2022, the credits known as enhanced premium tax credits carry a sunset at the end of this year, and lawmakers had chances to extend them in the budget reconciliation bill passed in July or during the government shutdown that ended last month.
- Millions of beneficiaries face insurance cost spikes if subsidies expire at the end of the month, with roughly 25,000 Alaskans who use the federal exchange facing annual premiums expected to increase two- or threefold.
- Murkowski urged a bipartisan effort to extend the credits and pass a measure before the end of this year, while Sullivan said he will `redouble` efforts and sees failed votes as a chance for compromise.
- Lawmakers are circulating eight concession proposals, including a two-year extension with limits and income limits and shorter-than-three-year options, which Sullivan described as potential landing zones.
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4 GOP senators break ranks to vote for Democratic extension of ObamaCare subsidies
Four Republican senators, including two vulnerable incumbents who are up for reelection next year, broke ranks Thursday and voted for a three-year extension of enhanced health insurance premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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