Jessica Tarlov

And it's uncomfortable to me.

And I say this as someone who gleefully says, like, in the latest NBC poll, you're being blamed by 12 points.

So I, you know, I'm telling myself a bit.

And I do think that the Democratic base is

is happy right now with the party.

They're saying, you are fighting for the right stuff.

You're not rolling over.

There's no, like, Chuck Schumer telling us we're going to stand up to them.

And then he's like, actually, I'm going to give them exactly what they want in 20 minutes.

Right.

So I imagine it comes to fruition.

No.

It's not going to have any impact on next year's—

that they could sign or a bill, it wouldn't solve the problem.

Like a lot of these premium increases are baked in at this point now that the exchanges are open.

You know, it's not bureaucracy is very slow moving.

It's not like something like you flip the switch and it's like, oh, actually, we're going to go back to this level, which, by the way, is totally unacceptable level.

And I wanted to ask you about that because it feels like.

You know, we're having this fight about, you know, making sure your premium doesn't go up 114 percent to 400 percent, you know, depending on where you are.

But like Obamacare is still too expensive and there's no reform plan coming.