It looks like we are getting closer to having an actual BBB plan. It will be - in the manner of all major legislation - a bundle of compromises. Today, ACA is considered a policy triumph, an effort to provide health insurance to millions of Americans. In 2010, it was considered a failure by progressive advocates who want a single payer system. Since 2010, ACA has been protected, expanded and improved upon.
A similar dynamic is at play here. BBB will be a major accomplishment, but the idea and plan for BBB was so expansive that any bill that survives Manchinema will seem like a letdown.
It will not be.
The question is: How can Democrats - in an age of Internet Hot Takes and Purity Politics - sell a truly impressive expansion of benefits to a skeptical public?
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