Welcome to the NewsHour. The U.S. Senate failed to pass two dueling pieces of health care legislation today,

leaving Affordable Care Act tax credits all but certain to expire at the end of the year.

As lawmakers prepare for year-end recess with no agreement in sight,

tens of millions of Americans who rely on the ACA are being left in limbo.

The expired subsidies would lead to a sharp

rise in health insurance premiums starting next month. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin

was at the Capitol today and joins us now. So Lisa, walk us through. What happened today?

What we had today in the Senate was Republicans and Democrats each having one shot to put up a bill to deal with these

expiring enhanced tax credits. Now, these are just don't, these are enhanced credits on top of

what was originally in Obamacare. So we saw both parties put up bills, but frankly, Omna, those

bills, neither one of them seemed likely to pass. Let me go through what they proposed, first

of all. Now, the Republican

plan is to limit the enhanced subsidies and essentially move them into health care savings

accounts. Now, that plan failed. It got 51 votes, but that's short of the 60 that was needed.

Democrats, their plan, a little bit more straightforward, a three-year extension of the enhanced

subsidies as they are now.

That plan also failed, but interestingly enough, Omna, 51 votes.

So we had two plans today that both got a majority vote, but both short of the bipartisan 60 votes that's needed in the Senate.

And we learned a couple of things.

The Senate clearly is not at a point

where there are even having these bipartisan talks

that are needed to come up with a compromise plan.

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