The plan is to get more people insured by using other people’s money, which will increase demand for services. That will drive up prices, which will now be largely internalized into the Federal budget. In order to avoid budget catastrophe, they will then suppress that demand by restricting treatment options, one way or another.

The game since about September has been to game the CBO scoring system to make the first 10 years look (not actually BE, but LOOK) budget neutral, and find a way to get to 218 in the House (done) and 60 in the Senate.

All the talk about mandated coverage, community rating, Medicare buy-in, ‘is it a tax?’ and all the rest is just the topic du jour as the Dems try to glue wings on this dead bird and then pretend it can fly.

Pretty much everything since September has just been part of this kabuki and unless it’s your job there’s little point to trying to follow all the details, day to day. The essentials don’t change. No matter what they come up with, it’ll be basically the same stinker, just wearing one tie as opposed to another.

A fiction willfully perpetuated by the MSM who refuse to demand details and seek to avoid calling the game for what it truly is.

They will pass this monstrosity and it will contain all the horrors we are being told have been dropped.

At one time the old English Whig Party’s policy was to only delete legislation, never to propose new legislation. Sounds like a policy we could use.

Lovely group.