ObamaCare anxiety rising among House GOP centrists: 'To do this is buffoonery' [View all]

Frustration is mounting among moderate House Republicans as various competing health care plans appear to be going nowhere, with less than 10 working days left on the calendar before millions of Americans see their health insurance premiums spike.

A small but animated group of GOP centrists is imploring party leaders to extend the ObamaCare tax credits set to expire at the end of the year. But they’ve run into a wall of opposition from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who’s cold to the idea, and a larger group of conference conservatives, who are openly fighting to have the subsidies end.

The resistance from the top has prompted warnings from a growing number of Republican moderates that their thin majority will be lost in next year’s midterms unless GOP leaders hold their noses and extend the enhanced payments to prevent a spiral in out-of-pocket costs for more than 20 million Americans.

“It’s just bad to go into a very tight midterm election … and be hurting, you know, 20 some million people in the country,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) said.

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