White House postpones expected unveiling of new health care cost proposal [View all]

The White House has postponed its rollout of a new proposal to address health care costs aimed at averting a spike in premiums driven by the expiration of key Affordable Care Act subsidies, a White House official said.

President Donald Trump was originally expected to unveil the plan on Monday, but now that is not happening. The official did not provide a reason for the delay.

This shifting timeline comes as Trump seeks to fulfill his vow to deliver a better alternative to the enhanced ACA subsidies relied on by nearly 22 million people and comes after Democrats rejected measures to reopen the shuttered government for more than a month over their demand for a clean extension of those payments.

Senate Republicans agreed to hold a mid-December vote on extending the enhanced subsidies, which are set to lapse at year’s end, in exchange for extending government funding through January, spurring the effort by Trump and his aides to develop their own competing proposal. The beefed-up assistance was originally passed in 2021 as part of a Biden administration Covid-19 relief package and has helped drive a record 24 million people to sign up for coverage this year.

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Because they don't fucking have one.