House Republicans race the Senate for a plan to lower health care costs [View all]

Source: CNN Politics

11/18/2025 04:45 AM EST


Republicans in the House are just starting to have serious discussions about how to address skyrocketing health insurance premiums. They’ll have to move fast to catch up with their Senate counterparts, who are weeks ahead of them in complex and politically contentious deliberations.

After a lengthy recess, House Republicans are together again in person and coming to the drawing board on the policy issue that prolonged the longest government shutdown in history: the enhanced tax credits for Affordable Care Act insurance premiums that are due to expire at the end of the year without congressional action.

They’ll have their first conference-wide conversation Tuesday morning about whether they’ll seek to negotiate an extension with Democrats or forge ahead on a separate conservative health care agenda.

According to two people granted anonymity to share internal party strategy, GOP leadership will lead a high-level discussion in their closed-door meeting focused on how to address rising health care costs, laying out key Republican principles and charting a path forward for putting legislation together under a very tight deadline.

But by their own admission, House Republicans are only in the very nascent stages of negotiations, while Senate Republicans are already outlining detailed proposals to align with President Donald Trump’s vision for lowering the cost of health care by sending health funds “directly to the people.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/aca-obamacare-subsidies-extension-00655842

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where nothing was done in the House of Representatives for almost 2 months (7 weeks).

It took over a YEAR to go from this -

Health Reform Summit March 5, 2009



to this -

Signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act March 23, 2010





And now the GOP is gonna try to cobble some shit together "in 2 weeks".