A House Republican’s efforts to defend his party’s government shutdown on Thursday quickly unraveled under a basic line of questioning.

CNN host Erin Burnett asked Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia what the GOP plans to do to prevent health care costs from skyrocketing if they refuse to extend expanded subsidies, which otherwise will run out at the end of the year.

“We have the most expensive health care system in the world. It's even close,” McCormick said. “Anybody who's been overseas and been to an emergency room—”

“Address the subsidy, please,” Burnett interrupted. “Can you address the subsidy extension?”

“I'm going to address that,” McCormick snapped back. “But you got to allow me to address this. I'm a physician. I'm a health care expert on the [GOP] Doctors Caucus.”

Things didn’t

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