First Schumer, now Harkin:
Sen. Tom Harkin, one of the co-authors of the Affordable Care Act, now thinks Democrats may have been better off not passing it at all and holding out for a better bill.
The Iowa Democrat who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, laments the complexity of legislation the Senate passed five years ago.
He wonders in hindsight whether the law was made overly complicated to satisfy the political concerns of a few Democratic centrists who have since left Congress.
“We had the power to do it in a way that would have simplified healthcare, made it more efficient and made it less costly and we didn’t do it,” Harkin told The Hill. “So I look back and say we should have either done it the correct way or not done anything at all.
Harkin’s comments are actually quite a bit more damaging than Schumer. Schumer only lamented the timing of the law, not its contents. Harkin is now on record saying the law is crap.
So my question to the Complicit Media (cough, Greg Sargent, cough) is: Does this mean ♡bamaCare!!! is working?
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