Something @sahilkapur I touched tonight. The last time there was a big show-down between progressives and conservative Dems was on the ACA. And the conservatives won.
One of the main things they "won" on was reducing the amount of subsidies the government gave people for the plans they purchased on the exchanges. This made the bill "cost less" in a fiscal projection sense.
But it also made the experience of the law for many families *much worse*. The NUMBER ONE complaint I heard from people in the exchanges WITHOUT QUESTION was that that plans were too expensive.
In other words the moderate/centrist/conservative dems took a step to make the law not just worse substantively, but actually less popular and more toxic. There's a lesson there.
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