Ryan GrimVerified account

We are in a really awesome moment of Dems proposing visionary improvements to health care. Bernie & co. This . @brianschatz next week. 1/ https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/921407214677569539 …

Other great proposals are also coming—or already public, like Franken's bill to cut prescription drug prices. https://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3655 …

Contrast between these Democratic ideas and the Republican bills couldn't be sharper: Dems expand coverage, Repubs take it away. Every time.

Also, notably, Dems put these proposals out years before they're likely to be voted on—rather than minutes—so they can be debated & improved

By rushing to repeal, GOP has guaranteed that health care will be on agenda in 2018 & 2020. If Dems sweep, window of opportunity opens.

Health care = so fundamental & personal to every person that it's never a settled issue. But chance for big reform usually 1x/generation.

The Affordable Care Act was an extraordinary achievement in an era of profound gridlock & polarization. But it's clear we have far yet to go

The most politically vulnerable parts of the ACA—the market-based exchanges—are the most conservative. To secure coverage, move left.