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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Democrats did *not* vote to shut the government down. They voted *against* a CR that makes medical insurance financially unattainable for millions of Americans.[/quote]No, they voted against a CR that does not extend the temporary COVID subsidy increase.[/quote]

I’m a Dem but oh. I did not realize what Ds were arguing about was a subsidy bump up that was intended to be temporary during the pandemic. Not loving that. But kudos to them re: messaging - I had no idea this was the hill they were dying on. [/quote]

Ftr, Dems are not fighting for a "temporary" bump but for an expansion of the ACA that was enacted during the pandemic, an expansion that should have happened earlier but had been blocked.  The justification was the pandemic but the need had already been there.

When the ACA was enacted, it was supposed to be modified to work as intended and instead has been modified to work less well.  The expansion fixed some of this.  Dems and Reps know this, they just haven't figured out the messaging yet.[/quote]

It was temporary for covid when people had lost all their jobs and we're not able to work. Should we continue other pandemic policies indefinitely? What about WW2 subsidies? [/quote]

No, it was an expansion designed to fill in the gap.  Covid was just the excuse they used to enact it.  [/quote]

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