Washington — House Republican leaders unveiled a plan Friday to address health care costs ahead of a year-end lapse to tax credits that will result in skyrocketing premiums for more than 20 million Americans.

But the plan does not include an extension to the Affordable Care Act subsidies. Instead, Republican leaders will allow a vote on an amendment to the plan that would include an extension to those expiring tax credits, according to a GOP leadership aide.

The move is aimed at appeasing moderate Republicans who are trying to force votes , through what is known as a discharge petition, on separate pieces of legislation to extend the tax credits for one to two years with reforms.

An extension has split the party, with those opposed saying the subsidies are ripe with fraud and

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