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Some Senate Republicans are expressing frustration that their conference hasn’t been able to unify behind a health care plan ahead of a vote next week on a Democratic proposal to extend health insurance premium subsidies that will expire in January.
Democrats want a clean, three-year extension to the subsidies without reforms, something that is unlikely to pass muster with Senate Republicans, who want stiffer changes to subsidies.
Top Republicans have said they want to produce a proposal in short order to counter Democrats pressing for an extension of health care subsidies. They have not gotten far.
Legalizing cross-state health care buying co-ops and letting everyone have an HSA is the only truly conservative option.
A detailed memo from Johnson’s top finance officials generally sought to discredit the proposal floated earlier this week in a letter signed by 26 aldermen.