General Discussion

Without the ACA subsidies, 4 million people are expected to be unable to afford insurance. And tens of thousands will die prematurely as a result.

It was the cruelty of the felon and the Trumpublicans, NOT the Senate Democrats that inflicted the pain of the shutdown.

Making a "deal" with such people only perpetrates the DELUSION that "bipartisanship" is possible with a party that has effectively gone psychopathic. And that Delusion is going to cause a hell of a lot more harm to people YOU AREN"T CONSULTING on the matter of whether they want their Democratic electeds to (1) use the only leverage they have in an effort save lives, and to use that leverage until it is forcibly taken from them, or (2) go along to get along and be accomplices and keep giving the evil empire their 60 votes whatever horrific cuts they seek to pass.

Frankly, I think a hell of a lot of those Federal Workers, who are lucky enough to have insurance through FEHB, have friends and relatives on ACA and recognize that the pain they were enduring was in a fight for THOSE people.