Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stephens. Affordable Care Act tax credits that were expanded during the pandemic are set to expire in roughly two weeks. As NPR's Deirdre Walsh reports, competing plans to address health care costs failed to advance in the Senate on Thursday.
Senate Democrats proposed extending existing health care subsidies for three years. Four Republicans backed that bill, but it failed to get the 60 votes to advance. A Republican bill to give consumers up to $1,500 to use in health savings accounts also failed to advance.
Chapter 2: What are the implications of the Affordable Care Act subsidies expiring?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blamed the GOP for blocking action weeks before people will face spikes in health care costs. Now Republicans have all but guaranteed that tens of millions of people will see their premiums double or triple or more next year. House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing the House will vote on some health care bill, but there is no agreement on the details.
Swing District House Republicans are working to force a vote to extend the ACA subsidies for one or two years. Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol.
Republicans in Indiana's Senate have rejected White House pressure to create more GOP districts. As Ben Thorpe of member station WFYI reports, they voted down a new congressional map that was created to give the GOP an advantage in in next year's midterm elections.
There were protesters against redistricting that you could hear from inside the Senate chamber today, and looming over everything was this pressure from the Trump administration. Here's one of the Republicans who opposed the new voting map, State Senator Spencer Deary.
And as long as I have breath, I will use my voice to resist a federal government that attempts to bully, direct, and control this state or any state. Giving the federal government more power is not conservative.
Opponents also noted that states usually redistrict early in the decade after the census comes in. Republicans just passed the current map in 2021.
Ben Thorpe in Indianapolis. The World Health Organization is again asserting that there is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that the Trump administration says otherwise.
This fall, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its website to say that a link between vaccines and autism can't be ruled out. That reversal in guidance has been taken further by President Trump, who has repeatedly suggested vaccines can cause autism. Now, WHO is releasing its own review of the evidence.
Its medical experts analyzed more than 30 studies conducted over the past 15 years. Here's WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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