This is what billing transparency is meant to fix. If people started paying attention to the details of these claims, then they’ll make rational decisions about healthcare finance. Instead of the highly irrational mess we have now. That’s the theory at least.

Really? If Schumer’s in there you’re really ok with him going down? Surely there must be some old white pedophiles worth protecting.

/sarcasm

This country is 250 years old. Have you seen all the amazing features you can get with the newer countries now? I heard Norway came with healthcare installed right out of the box.

First they floated “Is a 16 year old really so bad?” Now it’s “Some scumbag democrats did it too.”

I thought I would enjoy watching him squirm more than this. It’s awful, it’s shameful, I just want to see justice done and move on as quickly as possible. This fucking guy is just dragging it out.

Brutal

Who could have guessed sexualizing 16 year old girls wasn’t going to fly? I guess that’s why the White House needs to test these things with their media lackeys. Sorry bout your career, Meg!

I love churches whose central theme is having to pass a purity test. The hypocrisy is baked in because none of us are pure.

It would be so much easier if God sent a message, or say, a person, who forgave people’s impurity in favor of loving each other. Wait a minute…

I wonder if there’s some kind of resource there that rich white people could use.

Do people even *do* that anymore?

Meditation and exercise every goddamn day. Clinging to my sobriety for dear life. Weekly therapy. 90 day Duolingo streak. Just started a guitar practice streak. Self-discipline works for me because I know how quickly things explode when anger and fear are in charge. Thanks for asking, God.

I could be convinced this was 4-D chess. If you assume the Rs would never cave (and they won’t) it’s all about timing the capitulation. The Ds may have walked away at the right time.

Mr. President, it really helps to have you out there demonstrating what respectable leadership looks like.

I hope we see some younger member of Congress calling this what it is. Trump was playing chicken and willing to starve the poor and let planes fall out of the sky and Democrats flinched. Reasonable people can argue about giving in or not. But MAGA owns every awful part of this Sophie’s Choice.

Exactly. From what I can tell, the Rs were taking all the heat. The Ds who have a vision and want to win know the people are on their side, mostly.

Instead Kaine’s out there trying to sell it as though their shrewd negotiating led to a win.

The old guard has no discipline and no vision for what they want the country to be. That’s some shit opposition right there.

“We will continue to fight and we need you to keep fighting too to stop this cruel and autocratic regime.”

Done. Run on Medicare for all, run on taxing the rich, run on overturning Citizens United.

Instead Kaine is saying this a win and half of Congress is like “no we made no deal.”

“My fellow Americans, the Democratic Party fought valiantly to lower the premiums you’re seeing and fought for your access to care. When they decided to play chicken starving our most vulnerable going into winter and holidays, we could not bear to allow this Republican cruelty to pass.” 5/

Rs have proven they will concede nothing. 4/

The shutdown gave D an out to blame Rs for the price hikes everyone’s about to see. Let’s face it, the for-profit health insurance industry needs to be nuked. It will always give us the results we’re getting. Holding out on this one extension of subsidies kicks the inevitable down the road.