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I think you're letting Congress as a whole off to easy by scapegoating one senator. A more bipartisan bill that included a few Republicans could have been passe

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  > A more bipartisan bill that included a few Republicans could have been passed instead. Assumes facts not in evidence, notably that there is any bill oriented to the policy objectives the ACA sought to acheive that Republican Senators would have supported at that time, and (for relevance regarding the responsibility for the absence of a public option in the ACA) that such a bill would include a public option of the type Lieberman opposed.
• mikeash 9y ago
  No such bill existed. You might as well say that things would have been different if there were leprechaun senators.