Congressional Republicans are considering tax-exempt health savings accounts as their preferred vehicle to deliver on President Trump’s call to send taxpayer-funded health care subsidies directly to consumers instead of insurers.https://t.co/RuCXVwJU5y
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Congressional Republicans are considering tax-exempt health savings accounts as their preferred vehicle to deliver on President Trump’s call to send taxpayer-funded health care subsidies directly to consumers instead of insurers.
Lawmakers are wrestling over the best approach to providing government aid to Americans struggling with high health care costs as a pandemic expansion of Obamacare premium subsidies is set to expire at the end of the year.
Republicans say providing aid to consumers through HSAs will give them more flexibility over their health care choices than the enhanced subsidies, which are tax credits mostly paid in advance to insurance companies to lower what Obamacare customers pay out of pocket for their premiums.