In 21 days, the enhanced subsidies for the Affordable Care Act's health care marketplace will expire. This could be an extinction-level event for many Republicans as they head into the midterm elections next year.
But if Republicans are worried, their leadership does not seem to show it. House Speaker Mike Johnson has all but said that the House of Representatives will not hold a vote on the expanded subsidies.
Anywhere between 22 million and 24 million Americans get their health insurance through the subsidies. That's not a negligible amount, especially in red states. It's why Marjorie Taylor Greene lambasted Johnson during the shutdown for not coming up with an alternative.
On CNN, Rep. Nancy Mace, who is running for governor, ripped Johnson for not having a health care bill.
And on the Senate side, Republicans are engaging in health care failure theater. Republicans will vote on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy's bill that would give families money to deposit into a health savings account.
This will not win over any Democrats, which they know. It's simply a way to tell voters they tried.
Ironically, as much as progressives might have been disappointed after a handful of moderates defected during the government shutdown, Democrats might have won the messaging war around health care.
"I definitely think that we've won the shutdown," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told The Independent. "And I mean, there's no winning this, right, but I think that we've won the discourse with the American people and understanding what we were fighting for and why, and building up the fresher momentum to extend health care subsidies for people."
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