The much more famous one probably being Liberman single-handedly killing the idea of the government directly providing insurance even if it is in fair competiti

The much more famous one probably being Liberman single-handedly killing the idea of the government directly providing insurance even if it is in fair competition, and then with Scott Brown briefly being elected in MA (which had Romney-care anyway and the ACA barely impacted most of us) everyone assumed it was a referendum on the ACA and was too scared to push any further. It was very distressing watching the news spin it all as being about the ACA when it was definitely much more about his opponent since everyone here already had something analogous to the ACA. But that's how spin works I guess, it's certainly even worse now.