As a critical Thursday markup looms for the party's social spending plan, it's locked in a familiar split.
Hours after House Democrats launched a major, health care-focused piece of their pitch to turn $3.5 trillion of social spending dreams into law, it ran smack into a political brick wall.
Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee are set to begin considering a huge chunk of their party-line bill on Thursday, yet are already privately predicting they'll end up getting strong-armed by the White House and Senate into taking the Medicare expansion championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders at the expense of the ACA.
Meanwhile, the House progressive camp wants to spend significant money on expanding Medicare to cover vision, hearing and dental benefits for seniors. But despite the massive size of Democrats’ bill, there’s not enough money in their pot to please everyone. Even the ambitious draft The left's disappointment extends beyond the pace of the dental benefits roll-out, though negotiations are ongoing. Only half the cost of major dental procedures would be covered — far less than the 80 percent some advocates had demanded. And many key expenses, like over-the-counter hearing aids, wouldn’t be covered atRep.
and a more centrist caucus that will likely chafe at the Ways and Means approach — will have its say in the coming months.
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