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What Lieberman Has Done


Ezra Klein: "Joe Lieberman's reckless decision to blow up last week's compromise has had exactly the impact many of us predicted. Much of the left has flipped into vicious, angry opposition to the bill. Is that because the Medicare buy-in, a good but limited policy, has disappeared from the bill? Ostensibly. But not really. If you don't believe the bill has cost controls, Medicare buy-in was not an answer to your concerns. If you believe the mandate is bad policy, letting people between 55 and 64 choose public insurance did not answer your concerns."

"Lieberman has tossed the process into chaos, and maybe that was the point... But his recklessness has endangered the bill, and through it, many, many lives. He may not be ashamed. But he should be."