Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Tell Democrats: Ignore Migrant Caravan

[Right_in_Virginia]

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Tell Democrats: Ignore Migrant Caravan
Breitbart, Oct 22, 2018, Neil Munro

Democratic leaders are urging their party’s 2018 candidates to ignore migration issues even as the fast-growing caravan of migrants walks northwards through Mexico.

On Sunday, media reports said the caravan has grown to 7,000 people — up from 3,000 last week — and more people are seeking to join the migration.

On Saturday, the Democratic leaders declared “The president is desperate to change the subject from health care to immigration because he knows that health care is the number one issue Americans care about.” The  statement from Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer urged Democratic candidates to ignore public worries about the migration:

Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Republicans in Washington are making a mess of our health care system, causing premiums to increase and care to decrease while threatening to gut protections for pre-existing conditions. Democrats are focused like a laser on health care and will not be diverted.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/22/democratic-leaders-to-candidates-ignore-the-migrant-caravan/

[Jazzhead]

Yesterday, the Administration announced new rules by which states can apply for waivers to offer less expensive, less comprehensive health policies while still being able to qualify for ACA subsidies.     

I support this approach.  Repealing the ACA without a replacement is a political non-starter.  But a robust waiver process can permit states to offer both the subsidized comprehensive coverage required by the ACA as well as less expensive alternatives that work better with what folks need and can afford (especially for the very common situation of two-income working families whose combined income is too high to qualify them for ACA subsidies.)