Barely two weeks into the new year, Americans are really feeling the crunch.

The enhanced subsidies that made the Affordable Care Act more affordable for 22 million Americans last year expired at year’s end. Initial Obamacare enrollment has already dropped by 1.4 million people, and that number may be bleaker now that the final enrollment period has ended in most states. People trying to maintain their insurance coverage face significantly higher premiums, and that even includes those with employer-provided insurance.

What are the Republicans, who fully control Washington, doing about this crisis? Most of them are doing nothing at all—because they don’t consider it a crisis. Just 17 GOP members of the House of Representatives joined Democrats last week in passing a three-year extension of the enhanced subsidies, and negotiations on the bill have stalled in the Senate. And on Thursday, President Donald Trump pretended to take action by unveiling “The Great Healthcare Plan.”

It is not “great,” to say the least; even calling it a “plan” is generous. It’s more like “

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