Senate Democrats are trying to reassure progressives and House members that voting for the more conservative Senate health care bill doesn’t mean things can’t be improved later. They point to major historic policy changes such as Social Security and Medicare when the bills were passed with their most watered-down provisions and later bolstered, drawing parallels between those battles and the health care fight.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=129508