Here's our piece on how Obamacare stacks up:

As Republicans are noting, Obamacare insurance is expensive. But so is insurance in the employer market, Medicare and Medicaid. Those high prices are subsidized by the government. That's true in the other programs, too. Link to my article with @ReedAbelson in reply.

NEW JERSEY: Get to know MIKIE SHERRILL: —Voted to RAISE taxes by $3,700 —Voted to give ILLEGALS taxpayer-funded healthcare —Voted to CUT the child tax credit And Sherrill has NO idea what to do as Governor. 🤯 Vote AGAINST her on Nov. 4th.

GOP closes door on talks as Ds say they won’t back off their demands. Britt: “They are stopping people's paychecks because they want to have a conversation.” Cornyn: “We capitulate to their outrageous demands now, can you imagine what it'll be like then? This is bad behavior.”

JOHNSON this AM: “Can we completely repeal and replace Obamacare? Many of us are skeptical about that now, because the roots are so deep, it was really sinister, the way it was created. I believe Obamacare was created to implode upon itself, to collapse upon itself.”

Huh — @SenBillCassidy, who chairs the Senate's health committee, is demanding answers from the American Medical Association over its coding system. CASSIDY: "I am actively reviewing the government-backed monopoly around CPT codes and the impact on patient health care costs."

Cool job alert: https://t.co/9eRYQO6SpT @tradeoffspod

Senator Collins says at the Capitol tonight that she’s circulating a bipartisan plan that will commit to moving to address health-care subsidies once the government is reopened… she showed reporters a folder that had a printout of what she said could be a way out of shutdown

Model Y Standard & Model 3 Standard are here

Trump says “we are speaking with the Democrats, and some very good things could happen with respect to healthcare.” “I’d like to see a deal made for great healthcare.”

At @AspenInstitute today, @DrOz named his pick to lead Medicaid: Dan Brillman of @UniteUsHQ. First he said Brillman is "going to come in and run Medicaid," then said "probably, I'm hoping." If he's appointed, both Medicare and Medicaid would be run by health tech entrepreneurs.

Sen. Murkowski has introduced a bill to do a clean 2 yr extension of enhanced ACA tax credits, her spox confirms

Just caught up with House Appropriations Chair TOM COLE. - he said leadership is waiting to get the member security provision squared away so he can close out the CR “I told our leadership, whatever you give me, we'll put in the bill.” - he said the CR will be “very clean”

.@RepJeffries responds to Trump on government funding: “House Democrats will not support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the healthcare of the American people. That’s what this shutdown fight is all about, Mr. President.”

Here's the new guidance on the Rural Health Transformation program:

However, the link still takes you to a White House page that says "The One Big Beautiful Bill." https://t.co/xzlyDJbHMV

I guess the word has gotten out to the agencies to use "Working Families Tax Cut Act."

Republican states will get hit hardest if ACA enhanced tax credits are not extended before they expire at the end of this year. @sangerkatz @CatieEdmondson @nytimes

If the federal show of force in Washington has had a deterrent effect on crime, it appears to have deterred entirely normal aspects of city life, too.

News: Cassidy just announced Senate HELP will hold a hearing next week with fired CDC director Susan Monarez and other fired officials. Should be interesting!

Read Aatish Bhatia @fparises and @iamrumz on how the zodiac we all use is 2,000 years out of date.

Think you know your zodiac sign? Think again.

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