President Trump resembles one of those football players who spike the ball before crossing the goal line and ends up blowing the scoring opportunity.

Declarations of a “very big victory” in the standoff with Democrats over a continuing budget resolution that shut down the government for a record period shows that Republicans have not taken ownership of that political anvil known as the Affordable Care Act.

Subsidies that make health insurance affordable for 24 million Americans end with the new year. Republicans promised a Senate vote on renewing federal assistance to end the shutdown.

Now, unless the GOP comes up with an alternative plan they’ve been promising since the ACA passed in 2010, they will be the party associated with huge increases in health insurance costs.

If nothing is d

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