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

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(Washington Post) 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.

Democrats maintain the simplest and most popular option is to extend ACA subsidies set to expire next month. Analysts say millions of people - many in states that supported Trump - will forgo health insurance if the program ends. The president’s own pollster has warned that not extending the subsidies would pose a major political risk for the GOP in the midterms.

But rather than sign on to Democrats’ proposal, the president has argued 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.

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