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'We get blamed for everything': GOP senators know party is running over health-care cliff

'We get blamed for everything': GOP senators know party is running over health-care cliff

WASHINGTON — Thursday is the long-awaited health-care day in the U.S. Senate, but that doesn’t mean Congress has a plan to avert massive spikes in health premiums in the New Year.

To counter Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s proposal to extend COVID-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies for three years — which most Republicans say is too long — on Tuesday, Majority Leader John Thune announced the GOP would offer a new measure to replace subsidies with health savings accounts.

“We need to fix it. It's broken. It's a piece of sh––,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Raw Story of the ACA, commonly known as Obamacare....

Ohio plan to curb union rights unpopular: poll

Ohio plan to curb union rights unpopular: poll

CHICAGO – Republican plans to curtail union rights are unpopular with Ohio voters who also disapprove of how the US state's newly-elected governor is handling his job, a poll released Wednesday found.