Prospects look dim for Congress to agree to an extension of ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies, as Republicans run headlong toward a December cliff without a clear plan to break their fall.
GOP leaders are trying to coalesce around a unified path on health care, but it’s looking increasingly likely the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) enhanced subsidies are not going to be part of it.
A growing number of conservative groups and pollsters have been warning Republicans about the political dangers of letting the subsidies expire, and some lawmakers are taking those warnings to heart.
But they’re going to hold a vote! That’ll fix everything! Right?
Oh yeah. It was a pinky swear with, I believe the legal term is, “no takesies-backsies.”
As opposed to starving people while still not fixing it? I mean, it fixes the starving part.
Which is nice. If one was starving.