With a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Acts’s healthcare subsidies coming in the next few weeks, congressional Republicans remain split over whether to extend the law’s tax credits if the court voids them in most of the country. Some GOP leaders fear a firestorm of public anger if the Republican-dominated court and the anti-ACA House are blamed f0r taking away what many patients have come to like and depend on.

If the Supremes throw out the credits, we’d guess that many anxious  Republican lawmakers will  vote to extend the credits to buy the GOP time  to enact a broader overhaul of health law the party has long opposed.