CNN's Audie Cornish was astonished by updates from her panelists on the state of Republican health care talks.

Senate Republicans Republicans have put forth at least five proposals to address the Affordable Care Act subsidies expiring at the end of the year, with a possible vote Thursday, which is putting pressure on House Republicans to come up with their own plan, but Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) appears paralyzed by a lack of guidance from the White House.

"Yeah, well, look, on health care there is no Republican consensus on what to do about health care," former GOP congressman Charlie Dent told "CNN This Morning."

"Say that again," Cornish interrupted, and Dent repeated his assertion. "So even as we're about to have a vote, you're saying that doesn't even have the full support?"

"Well, okay, let's assume for a second that the [health savings accounts] being discussed become law," Dent said. "It would take a while to stand them up, and so in the meantime –"

"You're still going to die," interjected Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright, paraphrasing an infamous quote on Medicaid by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA).

"In the meantime, you're still going to probably have to extend the current law," Dent continued. "I don't know if it's going to be for one year or two years, and you have Republicans in the House, Brian Fitzpatrick, Jen Kiggans and others, who have bills to extend the subsidies. That's the bottom line. The ACA, you know, it has expanded coverage, but it has not bent the cost curve down."

Cornish then turned to NOTUS correspondent Jasmine Wright and asked what was the point of the proposed health savings accounts if those funds couldn't be used to pay premiums.

"If you just, like, take a step back, there are five Republican plans percolating in the Senate right now," Wright said. "None of them, to your point, have any consensus. The Senate, the Cassidy-Crapo bill is going to be voted on on Thursday. It's widely acknowledged when you talk to folks on the Hill. We were reporting it on our NORUS newsletter this morning that that won't pass, Democrats have already said no. It's unclear whether or not Republicans even support that bill."

"There are bills going from one-year extensions to three-year extensions of those subsidies, and so I just think that that there is a fundamentally no real idea idea from Republicans about what they want to do going forward on health care, and I think that that extends to the White House," Wright added, "because you're not seeing the White House weigh in in a real way that we saw them perhaps do it two weeks ago when they let that trial balloon go of what they were going to do, which is extend those subsidies, and so I think that you're going to see a real kind of flurry of action over these next two days. But what comes out of it is a huge question."

Cornish could hardly believe what she heard.

"That's crazy for you to tell me," Cornish said. "There are five different bills. The one that is closest you're throwing water on. This is not good."

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