[Political Junkie Too]

Federal exchanges, federally subsidized, was the gateway to fully taking over health care. But stopping federal funding of exchanges and making the states fund it, was a blocking measure. The administration didn’t count on the states deciding to decline to set up there own exchanges.

That's why they want to subsidize federal exchanges, so they can get back on the path to a full public option.

-PJ

[semimojo]

The feds fund it either way. The states that set up exchanges got federal grants to do so, and all insurance subsidies come from the feds regardless of who runs the exchange.

I don’t really see what the strategy would have been for the Dems. Would they have knowingly passed the thing giving the red states the power to cripple it?