A miserable development in the fight for fiscal sanity and common sense health reforms.

Four Republicans teamed with all the Senate Democrats to vote for a bill that extends supersized insurance subsidies without any reforms – no minimum payments, no income limits, and no anti-fraud measures. Just last week the GAO reported rampant fraud, but apparently that is fine with every Democratic senator.  The bill fell well short of the 60 votes needed to pass, but Schumer got his wish to show majority support for his terrible bill.

The four Republicans who voted for Schumer’s bill were Collins of Maine, Hawley of Missouri, and Murkowski and Sullivan of Alaska. That puts them to the left of the Washington Post editorial board on health care reform.