Senate heads toward dueling partisan votes on health care, with each likely to fail

AP News  – Tuesday, December 9, 2025
By Mary Clare Jalonik and Ali Swenson

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire.

Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with new savings accounts, and a Democratic bill to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years lack the bipartisan support needed for passage.

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