"On Thursday, the House passed the Health Care Affordability Act in a 230-196 vote, which would provide a three-year extension to the Affordable Care Act, thus extending the pandemic-era subsidies that expired on December 31. And while the bill is pretty much guaranteed to be dead-on-arrival in the Senate (especially since it's already been rejected by the upper chamber and Sen. Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) vowed to ignore it), that didn't stop Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.)-who introduced it-from performing a little celebratory dance."
"That is, the GOP is slowly losing its 218-213 House majority, and now that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has resigned and Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) has passed away, Johnson can only afford to lose two votes whenever all House Democrats show up to vote. And on Thursday, 17 GOP representatives broke ranks to join Democrats in passing the health care law, which has been a long- detested policy within the party-but not enough to refuse millions of Americans affordable health care."
Millions of Americans entered the new year with expired Obamacare subsidies. The House approved the Health Care Affordability Act in a 230-196 vote to extend pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years. Senate Republicans previously rejected the measure and Senate leadership signaled it will be ignored, making Senate passage unlikely. Representative Lauren Underwood, who introduced the bill, celebrated the House vote. The Republican House majority has narrowed to 218-213 after a resignation and a death, and 17 GOP members joined Democrats to pass the bill. Several defecting Republicans face re-election this year.
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