House GOP unveils health care measure that does not extend ACA subsidies

House Republicans -- led by Speaker Mike Johnson -- unveiled Friday a narrow health care package to address rising costs, but the plan does not extend the expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. The GOP proposal -- which will receive a vote on the House floor sometime next week -- would expand the availability of association health plans and what are known as "CHOICE arrangements"; impose new transparency requirements on pharmacy benefit managers to lower drug costs; and appropriate money for cost-sharing reductions to reduce premiums in the individual market. Association health plans allow employers to band together to purchase coverage. Notably, the 111-page measure would not funnel additional money into health savings accounts. "While Democrats demand that taxpayers write bigge