some money to play with it try to woo centrists but pumping more money into the bill just risks alienating the conservatives. well, it also seems to me they want something like the macarthur amendment in the house, the offer of a state waiver to waive what are both ideologically central forms of regulation and also quite politically popular. do you think that, philip, is what they re looking for here? i think there s more to that. i mean, keep in mind, this is a bill where to conservatives the big pitch is that it reforms medicaid but the big medicaid changes don t really start to hat happen until the next decade. it s not until the middle of the next decade that they re phased in. a lot of it is what is going to happen to really lower premiums and to try to give more assurance that entitlement reform is going to happen? i think that s the biggest central problem here is that
pumping more money into the bill just risks alienating the conservatives. well, it also seems to me they want something like the macarthur amendment in the house, the offer of a state waiver to waive what are both ideologically central forms of regulation and also quite politically popular. do you think that, philip, is what they re looking for here? i think there s more to that. i mean, keep in mind, this is a bill where to conservatives the big pitch is that it reforms medicaid but the big medicaid changes don t really start to happen until the next decade. it s not until the middle of the next decade that they re phased in. a lot of it is what is going to happen to really lower premiums and to try to give more assurance that entitlement reform is going to happen? i think that s the biggest central problem here is that conservatives such as myself