With these Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire, we looked yesterday at how they work.

Tonight, we take a close look at one of the main Republican alternatives to replace them

and help Americans pay for their health care, something called health savings accounts.

The pushback started almost immediately.

You lie!

You lie! You lie! You lie!

You lie!

The Affordable Care Act was an instant lightning rod, which conservatives decried,

challenged, and worked to replace.

That effort peaked in 2017 when a bill to repeal the ACA died with a dramatic thumbs-down

from then Senator John McCain.

Since then, Republicans, including President Trump in last year's debate, have struggled

to articulate a specific Obamacare reform plan.

So just to yes or no, you still do not have a plan?

I have concepts of a plan.

But now conservatives are rallying behind a policy prescription predating Obamacare, the HSA, or health savings account.

A health savings account allows people to manage some of their own health care dollars, and they decide how those dollars are spent.

Let's stop here. This is John Goodman, known as the father of the HSA.

Primarily people who save money get to keep it.

Because in 1992, he co-authored the book, Patient Power, laying out the idea.

It is the same today.

HSAs are accounts patients can use tax-free to save for health care.

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