These stories are … I keep flipping between fury that this happens to people and absolute awe at the power and tenacity of these women who just keep trying.

Part of the point of the marketplace is clarity - you know the plans there have to cover key events and that they have to cover pre existing conditions. As soon as you go off the marketplace, all that clarity goes away. It’s damn near impossible to figure out how they’re screwing you.

7 legislative days and then it can be raised on 2nd or 4th Monday of the month. So if house stays in session, earliest would be 11/24 I believe.

Is the 24th the first date a vote could happen?

If $ goes into FSA, that can’t be used for premiums. So millions will still be unable to get healthcare so using the $ to pay deductible is nonsensical.

Consider if you tracked dem party support over time for same sex marriage and used that data to imply that dem party was becoming super progressive. When in fact what happened was that support for same sex marriage became mainstream. What was once a progressive policy is now a moderate position.

It would be interesting to see the shift in public opinion on these issues over same period. Perhaps better framing would be - how much farther left is the party than the median dem voter and how has that changed over time. My guess is that party has shifted less than their constituents.

This is the way the normalization works. Scenes the media would've/could've chased a month ago go ignored in favor of what's new/shocking. It's not that people aren't reporting on what's happening, because they are. But the bar for what's "newsworthy" always shifts.

Which begs the question - is there really an advantage for dems to go moderate? The right wing will (successfully) portray ANY dem as left wing so there won’t be real gains from the middle. But the actual moderate “same old same old” message will turn off the progressive wing and young voters.