Picking and choosing benefits would destroy the system and make it so that plans that covered certain benefits cost exactly what those conditions cost.

This is also detached from reality, as the ACA exchanges have a wildly varying set of plan designs available. Bronze-silver-gold-platinum, HSA-eligible or not, copays or all deductible/coinsurance, limited or broad networks. The similarity is that they must cover all essential benefits

"The insurance that is best for you" is insurance that covers everything and is the same insurance everyone else has. This idiotic myth of people choosing the plan "best for them" has to die. Segmenting the risk pool and introducing adverse selection is a recipe for disaster

the whole point of having any sort of insurance system, whether private sector driven or public, is so individual consumers trying to navigate preventative care or chronic conditions or medical emergencies *aren’t* on their own buying every service à la carte out of pocket.

She’s lying, of course, but it is noteworthy that the feels like she has to lie and say these things. She’s a weathervane and this is a sign of the way the wind is blowing.

What a two-bit fucking thief.

Ten seconds into the game, and I’m pretty sure this court is already permanently burned into my retinas.

Uber and Lyft are asset-light businesses, which means they don't have any financial incentive to limit fleet size. If you own your fleet, you have to utilize it efficiently or lose money. If you don't your only incentive is to lower wait time by constantly trying to grow your supply side.

trump made the prosecutor who gave epstein a pass the secretary of labor!

Maybe our news media industry as its been currently constructed is a fundamentally unethical place and the ppl that have risen the highest in it have done so bc theyre amoral sociopaths

The Sacramento Kings are an abomination: defector.com/the-kings-ar...

I've seen concussed chimps suggest health care policy more coherent than this.

Why did it take until the past few days for people to realize that Doug Christie is a horrible head coach. Is it just because he stopped playing Keon? He has been a horrible X's and O's coach. Terrible at any sort of mid game adjustment. Gameplans never seem solid.

weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message

Trying to imagine my son getting excited because I told him that, when bedtime comes around tonight, he can ask me for my permission to stay up until dawn playing video games. Sure, man, ask away. We both know what the answer is going to be.

The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats. It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.

BURRY won’t let up — now arguing that Oracle and Meta are overstating earnings by understating depreciation: “.. By 2028, $ORCL will overstate earnings 26.9%, $META by 20.8%, etc.”

What do you need flood insurance for if your house hasnt flood yet? What do you need car insurance for if you havent gotten into an accident yet? What do you need renters insurance for if your apartments never been broken into before? What do you need life insurance for if you haven't died?

"What do you need health insurance for if you never get sick?" is one of the most insane/stupid arguments I've ever seen made in our political system so of course Republicans are making it.

Still no sure which of these sad sacks was most pathetic in "explaining" the cave in. So far, I think it's a tie between King, and Hassan. (But unfair contest, because we didn't get to hear from Fetterman or Durbin.)

the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

These are the people who forged Electoral College vote certificates and tried to pass them off as real, right in front of the whole country. Maybe the most insane crime of them all.

Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”

Not as long as Chuck remains in leadership, they won’t. Just endless capitulation.

Sacramento is down by 19 and looks terrible on both ends of the floor. I really don't see what the harm would be in playing Nique Clifford, Keon Ellis, Maxime Raynaud, Devin Carter. See what you have with your young guys.

Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.

People are very aware of how the Senate “works,” and that’s exactly why they are so angry

MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems. My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.

The politics of the shutdown: *GOP had a strong opening position *Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP *Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change *Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

Prescient

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

You’d have to have been born yesterday to think this deal is anything other than an abandonment of enhanced ACA subsidies. Every single Dem Senator supporting this deal understands that. They’re just hoping their Dem base doesn’t.

Stomping all over the Senate Democratic caucus. I don’t expect the cavers to have any morals but anyone with soul in that entire caucus should be embarrassed and if they had a backbone call out their leadership for failing their constituents and the base. Embarrassing and disgraceful all around.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

The subsidies are dead.

👇🎯 Unfortunately, this is true & probably the only way. Voters need to realize that hating government, & illegally defunding & dismantling it, & pretending that we can run a modern society/economy on Ronald Reagan's shabby talking point & worn copies of Atlas Shrugged & Mein Kampf is untenable.

Great! So as Sen Minority Leader, what consequences will there be for members that defect on this vote?

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

Know this, @schumer.senate.gov — if you cave, we will not rest until you are primaried and wrested from your seat. When kids on SNAP aren’t being fed, we’re even more hungry for justice. New York has shown you the people’s power just days ago. You *could* join with us, still, and do the right thing.

Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"

the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years