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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Colin Powell’s Fateful Moment</strong> - Though Powell created a doctrine of avoiding war unless absolutely necessary, he will be remembered for making the faulty case for invading Iraq. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/colin-powells-fateful-moment">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>America’s Workers Are Fighting Back: Can They Win?</strong> - For decades, the leverage has been on the side of management, but the pandemic has changed that. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/americas-workers-are-fighting-back-can-they-win">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Chicago High School Reopens, with Fears of Gun Violence</strong> - Students at Michele Clark High were relieved to return to classes, but shootings on the West Side mean that their problems are far from over. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/a-chicago-high-school-reopens">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Young Thug Defies Expectations Again</strong> - His new album, “Punk,” is a brilliant surprise. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/listening-booth/young-thug-defies-expectations-again">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Trader Joe Wrote a Memoir</strong> - The book is a sort of “Kitchen Confidential” for the grocery business, but without the drugs or rage. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/trader-joe-wrote-a-memoir">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>It’s time for Americans to buy less stuff</strong> -
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The global supply chain is expected to be a mess this holiday season. Instead of buying less stuff, Americans are just shopping early. | Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images
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Thanks to the supply chain crisis, holiday shopping won’t be easy this year — even if you buy early.
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I started getting emails from brands in September, hinting that I should get a head start on my holiday shopping. Next came the headlines, and then the reminders from social media users dishing out the same advice. Holiday shopping starts a little earlier every year, but this isn’t just the typical push. People are encouraged to order their gifts as soon as possible or risk having packages arrive late, due to rampant <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22650965/supply-chain-delays-2021-ongoing">supply chain disruptions and mailing delays</a>. Even <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22687960/book-shortage-paper-ink-
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printing-labor-explained">books</a> (yes, books!) aren’t safe from the impending shortages.
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The holiday shopping industrial complex feels especially unavoidable in 2021, with Halloween still more than a week away. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/04/amazon-begins-early-black-friday-deals-to-jumpstart-holiday-
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shopping.html">Amazon</a>, Macy’s, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/holiday-shopping-2021-target-kicks-off-
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deals-oct-10-with-price-matching.html">Target</a>, and Walmart have launched early-bird sales, and retailers are preparing to dish out millions of dollars on ads for strong fourth-quarter sales.
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The pandemic briefly curbed consumer spending, but not for very long: As the country opened back up, Americans felt the <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22445613/behavioral-economics-budget-post-pandemic">urge to get out and shop</a>, an impulse that retailers and marketers happily indulged. The early fall holiday shopping schedule is billed to benefit customers by reducing their annual holiday stress, which will likely be compounded by supply chain delays. But when the early bird catches the worm (and the sales), the retailers rake in all the profits.
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Early holiday shopping sprees are good news for retail corporations, logistics companies, and the US economy, but bad, ultimately, for millions of workers (manufacturing, retail, <a href="https://www.thedriftmag.com/stuffing-ourselves/">logistics, warehouse</a>) and the planet. Instead of opting to order our Christmas presents early, perhaps now is the time to reconsider America’s great shopping addiction.
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When the stuff we want is so hard to get ahold of, why go to such great lengths to buy it? Consumers have the option to not order items manufactured overseas, to source things locally from small businesses or artisans. We also have a choice that eliminates the potential for shipping or supply chain mishaps: We can just buy less.
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Hear me out, what if instead of panic buying a ton of crap a few months early, we weather the supply chain issue by all chilling on our holiday crap consumption
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/finejuli/status/1442990502626971649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2021</a></li>
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We know that our collective consumption of consumer goods, from the creation of plastic toys to the fossil fuels that ship them to our homes, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/tech/greenhouse-gas-emissions-retail/index.html">isn’t good for the environment</a>. Yes, on a consumer level, our ability to control resource consumption is minimal, but that doesn’t mean there’s no good in a holiday season where gift exchanges don’t require an Amazon Prime account or transit via multiple shipping containers. Mindfulness has its own benefits, especially for affluent consumers, which includes America’s upper-middle class. The higher-income consumers among us use far more resources than the less well-off and are responsible for influencing shopping norms at large.
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Americans are now more aware than ever of the global supply chain and its vulnerability to unexpected snarls (like the <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-
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goods/2021/4/2/22364278/suez-canal-ship-effects-ever-given-supply-chain">Suez Canal blockage</a>), raw-material shortages, and shipping delays. Experts predict that these problems, set off by the pandemic, won’t let up until 2022 or 2023. To help reduce supply chain backlogs, the Biden administration has ordered major ports and shipping companies, including Walmart, UPS, and FedEx, to increase their working hours. These domestic efforts, while heartening for consumers, are <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/politics/biden-port-los-angeles-supply-
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chain.html">unlikely to assuage</a> existing supply and demand issues across the world.
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Meanwhile, the growing severity of climate disasters threatens to impact how we produce, source, and ship these goods, raw materials, and the food we eat. Product shortages and delays, it seems, are the new normal. At the end of this logistic maze is the shopper, whose buying tendencies are cultivated and incentivized from a young age. The entire consumer enterprise could be summed up in one Ariana Grande lyric: “I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it.”
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If these supply chain problems are expected to persist, however, we must be prepared to curb our shopping habits. Conscious or decreased consumption might not move the needle much on climate change or improve the exploitative working conditions faced by those who produce and ship our goods, but that doesn’t mean we have to be trapped in a cycle of thoughtless buying. The alternative isn’t a moral neutral.<strong> </strong>Must we continue to drown in our unlimited and unfettered need for more stuff, or could we start buying less?
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In his book <em>The Uninhabitable Earth</em>, journalist David Wallace-Wells wrote that “there is something of a moral crime in how much you and I and everyone we know consume, given how little is available to consume for so many other people on the planet.”
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Shopping, by this logic, is a sin, one that Americans can’t live without. Well-intentioned consumers have tried to do the next-best thing: Shop sustainably. But sustainable shopping is still … shopping. It’s an oxymoronic act that makes us feel good about the things we buy. True sustainability requires reducing our consumption (and, likely, the country’s economic growth), not through buying “greener” products.
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“In an exploitative consumer market, the answer is not buying more. It’s buying less,” argues <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22700581/aja-barber-consumed-book-fast-fashion-ghana">fashion journalist and activist Aja Barber</a>. “We can’t buy our way to an ethical world.”
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Still, most consumers are swayed by the hope of “voting with one’s wallet.” Shopping and boycotting became a means to <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/10/7/20894134/consumer-activism-conscious-consumerism-explained">perform politics</a> in the Trump era and beyond. But consumer activism, or conscious consumerism, does little to impact legislation or corporate policy. The fossil fuel industries, to that end, have <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/9/5/20850490/elizabeth-warren-climate-change-forum-2020">weaponized the fallacy of “personal responsibility”</a> to avoid talking about corporate carbon emissions. (An infuriating, oft-repeated statistic from the <a href="https://www.cdp.net/en/articles/media/new-report-shows-just-100-companies-are-source-of-over-70-of-
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emissions">Carbon Majors Database</a> is that 100 major fossil fuel companies have produced 71 percent of total carbon emissions since 1988.)
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As <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22547185/consumerism-competition-
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According to one sustainability researcher, intent matters. Making the active choice to think twice before we buy could improve both our happiness and quality of life. It could help shape social norms and influence others toward more-sustainable choices.
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Daniel Fischer, an assistant professor at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, wants to reframe the conversation around sustainable living. People, he told me, often assume they’re adopting a lower quality of life by owning and buying less. “We need to flip this narrative around and emphasize how sustainability allows you to have a better quality of life,” Fischer said. “It’s not about renunciation, but choice.”
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His sustainability philosophy centers human needs, or how people can meet their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. In a consumer society, Fischer explained, our base impulse is to desire material goods that satisfy our needs. People have fundamental needs — food, shelter, safety — and more advanced, self-actualized wants. Most people aren’t fully aware of how to discern these motivations, Fischer added. They buy simply because they “feel like it,” without thinking deeply about the lasting purpose of the purchase. Americans, on average, buy more than <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-neurological-pleasures-of-modern-
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Fischer believes people can be trained to break out of this cycle of consumption. They can choose to replace certain shopping “satisfiers” with more sustainable options: buying vintage and used goods instead of new; seeking out hearty, plant-based meat substitutes; purchasing an experiential gift for their loved ones instead of something material. Fischer calls this process social innovation.
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“Our basic needs have always been the same and will always be the same,” he said. “The idea that we have to own every single thing in our household is a recent phenomenon, historically speaking. With social innovation, people can improve their level of satisfaction by still meeting their basic needs while [also] reducing environmental harms.”
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Fischer’s work examines how practices such as mindfulness and intention-setting can help a person reflect on their needs. It allows them to consider whether a purchase will bring long-term satisfaction — or, as Marie Kondo puts it, “spark joy” in their lives.
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For some shoppers, the pandemic was an opportunity to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/style/self-care/how-to-buy-less.html">reassess their consumption habits</a> and relationship to material goods. Many <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/buy-nothing-
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Steph, a 30-year-old corporate lawyer in New York, has gone an entire year without buying a new item of clothing. It’s a commitment that may seem antithetical to fashion, but Steph cares about clothes and appearing stylish — she has an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/repeatoutfitters/">entire Instagram account</a> dedicated to slow fashion and styling. Her intent isn’t to be anti-fashion; she just thinks it’s possible to make do with less.
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“During the pandemic, I started a challenge called Project 33, where I could only wear the same 33 items of clothing for the next three months,” Steph told me. “That made me curious about how I could maximize the number of wears I get out of the clothes I already own. Eventually, I committed to not buying anything for an entire year.”
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She said she felt freed by the challenge, not restricted: “I have more space in my mind to think about other parts of my life,” she said, “rather than just the things I want.”
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Social norms are shifting, and some people are starting to push back against thoughtless, unlimited consumption. Consumers are not only aware of the forces that influence them to buy things but are also, like Steph, actively working to combat them. “I like to believe that everything we do, no matter how small it is, has some sort of impact,” Steph said. “You can demand corporate responsibility while making better individual choices. I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive.”
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Individual choice has had an outsized role in climate change discussions, even when it’s clear that federal regulation is the best and most direct way to curb global carbon emissions. The “personal responsibility” debate has trapped American consumers in a cycle of cynicism. It’s easy to shrug our shoulders and continue to order from Amazon while we mutter under our breath that “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.”
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As citizens of the wealthiest country in the world, Americans’ personal choices do carry some weight. The problem is, it’s hard to quantify the environmental impact of individual actions and lifestyles. Plus, structural systems and social norms make it nearly impossible for people to break shopping habits. About <a href="https://www.inc.com/peter-cohan/consumer-spending-is-keeping-economy-
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Research has found that a person’s carbon footprint is <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/1/16718844/green-consumers-climate-change">closely tied to how much wealth they have</a>, even if they’re a supposedly “green” consumer. Wealthy people travel more, buy more stuff, and live in larger, energy-intensive homes. Most “middle class” Americans, according to a <a href="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/research-report-carbon-inequality-era.pdf">2020 report</a> from Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute, fall in the global top 1 or 10 percent of individuals responsible for blowing through the world’s carbon budget. (For context, anyone earning over $109,000 is categorized in the richest 1 percent of the world, and over $38,000 as within the top 10 percent.) These choices add up over a person’s lifetime, and our tendency to overconsume carries lasting <a href="https://www.vox.com/22291568/climate-change-carbon-footprint-
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On a recent podcast, New York Times opinion writer (and Vox co-founder) Ezra Klein encouraged listeners <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-ask-me-anything.html">not to think of their consumption decisions as individual</a> or as only affecting themselves. Rather, they serve as mechanisms for “social, political, and moral contagion.” It’s a mindset that Fischer, the ASU professor and sustainability expert, also champions.
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It’s in that way that individual attitudes ladder up to social attitudes, and then to social and political change. … So taking seriously the ideas and morals and views of individuals, that’s not a different sphere than what ends up happening in politics. And it’s not just individual. All of the stuff catches. … I think that a lot of the value of the choices we make is in our willingness to try to use those to change the choices other people see as normal for them to make.
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Reducing one’s carbon footprint requires more frugal sacrifices than buying less stuff (such as flying less, eating less meat, using more public transportation), but it’s a good place to start. This holiday season offers a bizarre, supply-chain-induced opportunity to change our shopping habits, to give more thoughtfully, to buy more locally and less overall. Most households are hard-wired to splurge on end-of-year gifts, and it’s unlikely people will ever stop even if the crisis worsens. The supply chain issues can, though, lead us to buy more conscientiously.
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The mission to buy less with more intention is achievable for everyone, especially affluent shoppers. It’s incumbent on Americans, the wealthiest people in the world, to cut back on and be critical of their consumption. Plus, if you haven’t ordered that Xbox Series X for the lucky gamer in your life, you might already be out of luck.
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People getting federal assistance were protected; their own costs were fixed, while the federal government picked up the cost of premium increases. But people with incomes too high to qualify faced the full brunt of rate hikes — and many of them dropped their ACA-compliant coverage as a result. Enrollment among those ineligible for assistance dropped by more than 3 million from 2016 to 2018, according to <a href="https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/issue-brief/data-note-changes-in-enrollment-in-the-individual-health-
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insurance-market-through-early-2019/">the Kaiser Family Foundation</a>.
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This became one of the ACA’s most obvious failures. In the American Rescue Plan (ARP), Democrats expanded the law’s subsidies to people earning above 400 percent of the federal poverty, and an estimated 235,500 of those who became newly eligible have enrolled in coverage this year, according to <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2021-sep-final-enrollment-
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report.pdf">federal data</a>.
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However, the ARP authorized the new subsidies for only two years. The new reconciliation bill would make them <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210912.160204/full/">permanent</a>.
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The other problem with Obamacare was unexpected. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the Medicaid expansion was too coercive and that states needed to be able to choose to opt out.
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Although the expansion was still a really good deal for states — the federal government covered 100 percent of the cost for the first three years, and 90 percent in perpetuity as of 2020 — a dozen states are still holding out, seven years after the expansion first took effect. Those states are concentrated in the South; Texas and Florida account for more than half of the 2.2 million people in poverty who have been left uncovered because of their state’s opposition to the expansion.
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Closing the expansion gap was also already a priority for Democrats in the ARP. In that bill, Congress offered an additional financial incentive for the holdout states: a temporary boost in their traditional Medicaid funding. But none of them have taken that deal in the six months since it passed.
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So Democrats have concocted <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210912.160204/full/">a new plan</a>. They would initially cover people stuck in the Medicaid expansion gap through private insurance on the ACA markets, before eventually transferring them into a newly created federal program that would replicate the coverage they would have received through Medicaid.
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It sounds clumsy, but that’s because Democrats have been trying to walk another legal tightrope as they’ve worked on a fix for the expansion gap. They don’t want to create a situation where the states that refused the expansion are getting a better deal than the states that accepted it, opening themselves to another lawsuit.
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The ACA improvements would drive the number of uninsured Americans down by several million — 3.9 million, according to <a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/Letter_Honorable_Jason_Smith.pdf">Congressional Budget Office projections</a> — another incremental step toward universal coverage.
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But the fixes in the bill alone are not sufficient to get the US caught up to the rest of the developed world, where universal health care is assured. And neither would any of the other proposals Democrats are considering.
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The hard choices Democrats face
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Many Democrats now view the ACA as a political winner, having run on the law in the last two elections. The proposed improvements to Obamacare probably enjoy the most widespread support among the party’s majorities in Congress.
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But as in 2010, Democrats may soon have to make important decisions about which policies to push through and which ones to cut out. They have thin majorities, again, and the more conservative wing is once more putting pressure on leadership to constrain the size of the legislation.
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Recent comments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, her allies, and center-left Democrats suggest that fixing the ACA would be the first priority.
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Other plans to achieve universal coverage — an aggressive public option or a single-payer Medicare-for-all — are still divisive among Democrats, and they face stiff opposition from the insurance industry. The party isn’t trying to pass them with the narrow majorities it currently has in Congress.
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Progressive Democrats have other ideas about how to improve health care, short of Medicare-for-all. These include adding to and improving Medicare benefits and making more people eligible for that program, which they hope will eventually serve as a vessel for single-payer health care.
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At first, it appeared Congress would try to do all of this at once. The first draft of the reconciliation bill included not only the ACA fixes but also the expansion of dental, hearing, and vision benefits for <a href="https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/medicare-
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advantage-in-2021-enrollment-update-and-key-trends/">Medicare’s 62.7 million beneficiaries</a>.
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But Congress faces the same kind of fiscal limitations now as when it was trying to pass the ACA: Centrists want the bill to be paid for, though some are also leery of major tax increases. Congress traditionally <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22422793/joe-biden-health-care-plan-obamacare-medicare-public-
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option">funds health care spending through health care savings</a>, and those constraints could dictate the policy again. (Whole proposals, like a major funding infusion for long-term care, may end up being scrapped <a href="https://www.axios.com/scoop-manchins-red-lines-f9f5f7f7-56d8-4bf6-8345-13abb75ef03f.html">because of centrist disinterest</a> and their demand to lower the bill’s cost.)
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/22685718/build-back-better-act-prescription-drug-prices-agenda">Prescription drug savings</a> are supposed to cover the cost of most of the bill’s health care provisions. But those reforms are running into trouble with some Democrats who sound receptive to the drug industry’s arguments that the price controls Congress is contemplating would hamper <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22702855/build-build-better-plan-medicare-
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negotiate-drug-prices">medical innovation</a>.
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If Democrats are forced to scale back or scrap the prescription drug plan to assuage those concerns, they’ll need to either find new savings to pay for their spending — which may be hard, without making new industry enemies who would try to tank the bill — or they’ll likely start cutting some of their coverage proposals.
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What would the priority be in the latter scenario? Democrats have already attempted to address these ACA issues in the American Rescue Plan. In comments last week, Democratic leaders again made the 2010 law sound like their top priority.
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“I feel very proprietary about the ACA,” Pelosi said, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-confront-divisions-over-health-
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care-benefits-biden-s-mega-n1281458">NBC News</a>. The No. 3 Democrat in the House, Rep. Jim Clyburn, said Medicaid expansion is his focus. A coalition of center-left Democrats is pushing House leadership to confine their health care agenda to these ACA remedies.
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All of these health care proposals cost money. The ACA coverage provisions total about $550 billion in new spending, according to <a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/Letter_Honorable_Jason_Smith.pdf">the Congressional Budget Office</a>. New Medicare benefits would add as much as <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/27/health-lobbies-democrats-medicare-506977">$350 billion</a> over 10 years to the health section’s projected cost. It may simply cost too much, in the eyes of center-left Democrats trying to trim the size of the package, to do all of it at once. Still, progressives are strongly backing the Medicare benefit expansion.
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Finishing the Obamacare project may be the safest bet for the budget reconciliation legislation — it has a real consensus within the party, and there are glaring problems that do need to be fixed.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="0rfPdZ">
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But even if the Democrats patch up the ACA, they’ll simply be postponing the larger debate to come. The American health care system still has serious problems, and those problems are, in some cases, only becoming more acute.
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</p></li>
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<li><strong>Democrats are setting social policies up for painful cliffs</strong> -
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<img alt="" src="https://cdn.vox-
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) speaks alongside fellow progressive lawmakers following a meeting with President Biden on October 19. The group of lawmakers met with Biden as negotiations on the infrastructure bill continue. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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Democrats are banking on the policies’ popularity to keep them going.
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Democrats, it seems, are looking to pare down their budget bill by going the route favored by progressives. While they’re weighing some big cuts to the $3.5 trillion package, the general approach — which isn’t yet finalized — skews toward funding more programs for a shorter period of time, rather than fewer programs for longer.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="2Janxt">
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Pushback from moderates over the size of the package has meant tough decisions about what to cut and what to keep. Progressives argued for preserving as many of the proposal’s policies as possible, while saving money by having them expire sooner than initially planned. Some moderates, meanwhile, advocated for the opposite: funding fewer programs for more time.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="xnD3J9">
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President Joe Biden backed the former strategy as well, and that appears to be the course Democrats will pursue. Biden and the progressives hope the policies will be so popular — even if they’re only implemented for a short period — that it will be difficult for future lawmakers to let them lapse, regardless of who controls Congress.
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<figure class="e-image">
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22943470/GettyImages_1347772193_copy.jpg"/> <cite>Spencer Platt/Getty Images</cite>
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<figcaption>
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|
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President Biden addressed attendees on his Build Back Better plan at an event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on October 20.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="FSF2NK">
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“Obviously, some of these programs are shorter than ideal. But the president believes, and I agree with him, that once we have these programs established, it becomes hard to take them away,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a member of Progressive Caucus leadership, told reporters on Tuesday.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ptZmPW">
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|
Opponents of this thinking emphasize that this approach could mean that many of these programs simply expire after funding runs out. Provisions in the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan, like the eviction moratorium and expanded unemployment insurance, ended after Congress opted not to renew them.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="NObF8x">
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“My own view is we ought to do fewer things better,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told reporters on Tuesday.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="znj3d0">
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|
Progressives, however, feel quick implementation of a broader set of programs will benefit a wide constituency, which will pressure lawmakers of both parties to keep the programs around. Second, they see these policies helping more people and giving Democrats concrete achievements to point to as the 2022 midterms approach.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="rnSPZY">
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“If given a choice between legislating narrowly or broadly, we strongly encourage you to choose the latter, and make robust investments over a shorter window,” Congressional Progressive Caucus leaders recently <a href="https://progressives.house.gov/_cache/files/9/1/9113ed5e-1fa6-4add-82f1-50defd35dcb4/FD56D8FBD35ADBE278F9E5810773B101.final-10-13-21-cpc-
|
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|
|
eb-bba-letter-.pdf">emphasized in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi</a>. “This will help make the case for our party’s ability to govern, and establish a track record of success that will pave the way for a long-term extension of benefits.”
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</p>
|
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<h3 id="lU5Yjm">
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What the budget framework could look like
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Utp3Pc">
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Democrats are narrowing in on what will — and won’t — make it into the bill.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="KezPZ5">
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Lawmakers hope to reach a “framework” deal this week, which would outline the main tenets in the legislation ahead of an October 31 deadline they’ve set for themselves.
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What exactly that will look like is still uncertain. In a meeting with progressive lawmakers on Tuesday, Biden floated some cuts including eliminating a proposal for tuition-free community college, but didn’t get into more policy specifics around issues like <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/10/15/22722418/means-testing-social-
|
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spending-reconciliation-bill">means testing</a>.
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</p>
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“We’re not at a place where there’s a final thing for us to look at,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Tuesday.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="h2m2tH">
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The White House has suggested a range between $1.75 trillion and $1.9 trillion for the final bill, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/19/biden-democrats-reconciliation/">according to the Washington Post</a>. Although the original legislation included $3.5 trillion in spending, conservative Democrats including Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) have said they won’t support legislation of that size.
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</p>
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|
Democrats are working to nail down the final figure this week, and see that number as driving other decisions about what the bill contains as well. “The top-line agreement is key to everything else,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said on Tuesday.
|
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</p>
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Here are some major provisions that now seem likely to make it in the bill:
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Expanded Medicare coverage for dental, vision, and hearing; universal pre-K; child care subsidies; the expanded child tax credit; and paid family leave are all provisions that are poised to be included, Rep. Khanna told reporters after Tuesday’s White House meetings.
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</li>
|
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<li id="uBV3Gz">
|
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There could be major changes to their duration and reach, though: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/19/biden-democrats-
|
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|
|
reconciliation/">According to the Washington Post</a>, the expanded child tax credit could last for just one year, and more means testing might be needed to win Manchin’s support. Additionally, the paid family leave program could wind up being for four weeks instead of 12, and capped by income as well.
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</li>
|
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|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="lUcg7h">
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And here’s what’s most likely to be cut:
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Cuts could include free community college and the Clean Electricity Performance Program. Tuition-free community college was not among progressives’ top five priorities, and it hasn’t been named by Manchin or Sinema, either. Manchin, meanwhile, has explicitly called for the Clean Electricity Performance Program — a provision that would pay companies that transition to clean energy — to be stripped out of the bill.
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</li>
|
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</ul>
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="me7HjP">
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Previously, progressives had laid out the five main policy areas they saw as essential to include: lowering prescription drug prices; providing funding for child care, paid leave, and long-term care; investing in climate jobs; providing funding for affordable housing; and offering a pathway to citizenship for immigrants including DACA recipients. Manchin, meanwhile, has expressed openness to universal pre-K and lowering drug prices. Sinema hasn’t publicly made her stances known, though she’s reportedly focused on pushing lower corporate and personal tax rates and expressed concerns about the drug pricing provisions.
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</p>
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="O6xfAC">
|
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Expect progressives and Manchin to continue to push for the inclusion of those priorities, and for many of them to appear in some form in the final framework.
|
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</p>
|
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<h3 id="YGdxtp">
|
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There’s a lot of uncertainty around policy cliffs
|
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|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="chVrls">
|
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A major risk of funding more policies for shorter periods is the possibility that these programs will just end if they are not renewed.
|
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</p>
|
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“We need to make sure people have certainty. Just doing something for a year or two doesn’t have the impact, doesn’t provide the certainty,” Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA), the head of the more moderate New Democrat Coalition, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/06/biden-cutting-down-reconciliation-bill-515375">previously told Politico</a>.
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Another example progressives have pointed to is the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans repeatedly attempted to unravel when they had congressional control. The ACA, though, was not set to sunset by a certain time, unlike some of the policies being discussed in the budget bill. To undo it, Republicans actually had to pass repeal legislation of their own, which they were ultimately unable to advance. To effectively end the budget bill’s proposed programs, all Republicans would need to do would be to deny them funding in future budgets.
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Still, progressives argue this won’t happen due to pressure from constituents benefiting from the new programs. An example of this, the Brookings Institution’s Molly Reynolds told Vox, is the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for low- and middle-income households enacted by Republicans during the Bush administration, many of which were set to expire in 2010. Because of how popular they were, they were renewed again that year and in 2012, when Democrats had control of the Senate.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How green politics are changing Europe</strong> - The Greens performed well in German elections but they are having to adapt their policies to succeed.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Brazil’s Bolsonaro accused of “crimes against humanity” over COVID response</strong> - Brazilian lawmakers walked back initial claims of mass homicide and genocide. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1806239">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Using recycled cathodes makes better lithium batteries, study finds</strong> - The materials create a more porous structure for the ions to negotiate. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1806147">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Trapped in amber: Fossilized dinosaur-era crab bridges evolutionary gap</strong> - Discovery pushes back when crabs came to land, freshwater to 100 million years ago. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1806041">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Drop Signature Series Islay Night hands-on: A $349, arrow-free keyboard</strong> - Holy Panda switches, tall, scooped keycaps result in custom look without the DIY work. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1805731">link</a></p></li>
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