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 politica

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