Plus, if Dems truly believe health care is a magical election-winning issue, they’ll get Republicans on record supporting the unpopular mandate they claim to hate. Why? Because they want the court to throw out pre-existing conditions protections. https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1308394791214800897

It’s a win either way. Trap Republicans voting to kill pre-ex protections right before the election OR they fold and the lawsuit threatening tens of millions of people’s health care goes away. Alternatively Dems can stick with the duck-every-fight plan they seem to like so much.

After years of insisting that the only bulletproof opposition to Trump is health-care politics, House Dems will seemingly fund the government without making Republicans vote to double down on their health-care destroying lawsuit right before the election. https://www.axios.com/house-passes-short-term-funding-bill-9d600537-bcc8-4abe-b55d-483d06d4e95c.html