Welcome to a special edition of Meet the Press Now. I'm Garrett Hake in Washington on this New Year's day as we kick off what will be a high-stakes and highly partisan political year.

Recently, NBC News launched our Finding Common Ground Initiative.

It's an effort to showcase lawmakers and leaders with different points of view who are

bridging the partisan divide and working together on issues that matter most to Americans.

One of those issues is health care, which will be front and center once again when Congress returns next week.

The Affordable Care Act tax credits that helped millions of Americans afford health insurance expired at midnight,

meaning millions of Americans' health care costs will spike this year.

In November, meet the press moderator, Kristen Welker, spoke to a pair of lawmakers about their bipartisan plan to address those expiring subsidies.

Here is that conversation.

Joining me now on set to talk about their own bipartisan proposal on those Affordable Care Act subsidies, Democratic Congressman Sam Laccardo, and Republican Congressman Kevin Kiley, both from California.

Their proposal would extend ACA tax credits for two years and pay for it by capping eligibility

and cracking down on Medicare Advantage payouts to insurers.

Thanks so much to both of you for being here.

Great to be with you.

Really appreciate it.

So let's dive right into this, Congressman, Licardo, we just heard there's a lot of different plans out there.

Not a lot of consensus. Consensus at this table. Why is this proposal the best?

Well, Kevin and I worked on a plan that would accomplish three things. First, to address the skyrocketing health insurance premiums that tens of millions of Americans are grappling with.

Second, find a way to pay for it. And that's obviously a controversial topic. And third, do it in a way

that's bipartisan. We know it needs to get past the Senate. So it needs both Democratic and Republican

support. So this is certainly one idea. There may be better ones, but it's important for us to actually have something that qualifies under each of those criteria.

Congressman Kylie, have you had conversations with your colleagues?

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