Sen. Mark Warner threw cold water on any talk of bipartisan cooperation on Cassidy’s ridiculous assertion that a one-time payment into an HSA is somehow going to fix the upcoming crisis with insurance premiums when the extended ACA subsidies expire.
Here’s Warner’s response to Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, who, rather than pointing out the flaws with Cassidy’s proposal to her audience, tried to make it sound like some sort of plausible solution to the upcoming crisis, simply because Cassidy has claimed he wants to reach out to the other side.
They love the notion of bipartisanship even if the only thing one side is peddling is snake oil.
BRENNAN: Domestically, we have Senator Cassidy on the program. taped to them earlier. He says he’s looking for fellow Democrats to join him in a health care deal by March to make these health savings accounts. And he said he’ll offer to extend the existing subsidies.
WARNER: Well, first of all…
BRENNAN: Would you be on board with that?
WARNER: We’ve got a crisis that hits as of Monday… tomorrow, because that’s when people have to sign up.
BRENNAN: He said retroactively you can do it.
