The House will vote on a Republican health care plan that does not include an extension of the expiring enhanced tax credits for Obamacare, a decision by GOP leaders that produced some dissension within the party.
The Dec. 17 vote is the latest development in the battle over the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, popularly known as Obamacare, and certain COVID-19-era subsidies that are set to expire this month.
Republicans are pitching their bill, the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, as a set of reforms that will lower the cost of health insurance across the board.
The GOP plan would leave the original Obamacare subsidies in place while allowing the temporary enhanced subsidies, instituted in 2021 as a response to the COVID-19 health emergency, to expire….