GOP plans to replace Obamacare have failed. Here's what lawmakers propose now.

President Donald Trump has again promised a “far better and far less expensive” alternative to the Affordable Care Act, and Republicans are rushing - again - to deliver one.

For weeks throughout the longest government shutdown in history, Trump avoided negotiating with Democrats on the health care concerns fueling their standoff. Now lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are speeding toward a self-imposed deadline of mid-December to hold dueling health care votes.

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But rather than sign on to Democrats’ proposal, the president has argued instead that billions of dollars in ACA subsidy money should be redirected away from health insurers and toward the general public, potentially in the form of untaxed health-savings accounts.

Many health economists have panned Trump’s plan, saying it is likely to create a “death spiral” in the ACA marketplaces. Healthy people would be prone to drop coverage, using the subsidies to pay out of pocket for whatever limited health care they need, leaving sick people behind and causing premiums to skyrocket.

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