The disintegration of the latest Obamacare repeal bid in the House has thrown the health law's fate back to a divided circle of White House advisers wrestling with whether to pay out key subsidies — or cut them off and blow up the health law.
The aides have limited time to figure things out; health plans must decide in June whether to stay in Obamacare insurance markets next year or pull out. If billions of dollars of cost-sharing subsidies dry up, the plans are more likely to leave, possibly quite rapidly. Millions of people could lose their coverage — and polls show people are becoming more likely to blame health law problems on President Donald Trump than on his predecessor.
