At the Races: Another health care election?

.The Senate voted Thursday on two competing health care plans, with neither party’s proposal securing the 60 votes needed to advance. But the votes give both parties plenty of fodder for political messaging.

So continues more than a decade of political fights over the Affordable Care Act.

Many Republicans have spent years maligning former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement. They say it has made health care unaffordable and oppose providing more money to subsidize insurance premiums under the law. But a number of moderate lawmakers argue they need to do something to prevent premium hikes for plans sold on the ACA marketplaces next year.

“There is perhaps no single policy measure that would have a more dramatic impact on affordability in the year ahead than doi