WASHINGTON — House Republicans plan to hold votes next week on a narrow health care bill that would allow expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire as scheduled at the end of the month while making several changes aimed at holding down costs.
They released the measure late Friday afternoon, just a week before Congress was scheduled to depart for the year and as the party faced mounting political pressure to do something to address the rising premiums expected when the subsidies end.
The legislation does nothing to preserve those subsidies, though a leadership aide said that a group of Republican moderates who have been pressing for an extension would get a vote on whether to add that proposal to the bill.
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