NYT: Six Takeaways From the Senate Deal to End the Shutdown

[Shrek]

NYT link (no paywall):

One of the six:

Trump’s pressure tactics worked, even as voters blamed his party.

Mr. Thune had been offering for weeks to give Democrats a vote on extending the health care subsidies. They only relented after the Trump administration had made the consequences of the shutdown too painful to ignore.

Asked what finally persuaded enough Democrats to break with their party, Senator Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats and helped negotiate the deal, offered a simple answer: the harm was growing too acute.

“I think people were saying ‘We’re not going to get what we want,’” on the health subsidies, Mr. King said. “But in the meantime, a lot of people are being hurt.”

[USS_Dauntless]

1. Sooooo......

losing the ACA subsidies won't hurt people?

[MayReasonRule]

5. They're Short Sighted Self Serving Sycophants

"The Democrats aren't shitting the bed - only 20 million will suffer!" is not clever rhetorical kung-fu....

The ACA mechanism puts enormous pressure on keeping costs down.

When costs go up for those lowest plans, that's right, every one else will see a rise in costs as well.

We're losing a $24,000 ACA subsidy.

Fuck that.
Fuck the GOP.

[S/V Loner]

6. They will but...

The GOP will own every bit of it and it will be their downfall.

[Lovie777]

2. Good ole NYT..............

never fails.

[Autumn]

3. Losing healthcare subsidies will hurt many more people. Tell me. mr. King will you give up your

healthcare?

[Nanjeanne]

4. King to children "well you did your best but it didn't work. Morale - don't try".

[durablend]

7. "The Homer Simpson way!"