Senate, Obamacare and healthcare plans
Digest more
Senate, Schumer and Dems
Digest more
Tampa Free Press on MSN
'Health care calamity': Schumer torches fractured GOP as ACA clock ticks down
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer leaned heavily into Republican infighting on Wednesday, seizing on GOP divisions to pressure lawmakers into backing a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies.
Chris Van Hollen chooses his words carefully when I ask him about Chuck Schumer. Yet the Maryland Democrat’s ambivalence about the Democratic Senate minority leader is clear. In the wake of the recent shutdown’s bitter ending,
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) announced Thursday that Democrats will force Republican senators to vote next week on a three-year extension of enhanced health insurance premium subsidies that are due to expire in January.
Senate Republicans' proposal to replace expiring Obamacare premium subsidies with pre-funded health savings accounts (HSAs) failed as lawmakers face year-end deadline.