GOP barrels toward ObamaCare cliff as prospects dim for subsidy extensions

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.