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Government only works via compromise. Yes, either side could capitulate.

Honestly "give this popular subsidy a vote" seems more like compromise to me than your idea.

Also, and mostly unrelated: does anyone find it funny that the ACA stopped being "Obamacare" the instant it became popular?

Thats not really the ACA\Obamacare story, but it's still funny:

Explain the program and then call it'ACA' and people loved it. Explain the program and call it 'Obamacare' and polled people disliked it.

Shakespeare was wrong about roses.