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So this is what happens when a swing Senator comes from a state whose principal industry is insurance. He can single-handedly stop any health-care reform that might actually lead to less profit for the insurance industry, which includes pretty much any health-care reform that might actually save money.
(For those who haven't heard, Lieberman has apparently convinced the D's to remove the "Medicare at 55" clause from last week's compromise, because if that clause goes in, he goes out. And once they've given him this, he'll find something else to demand, and he'll get that too. And something else, and something else, until the entire bill is just an insurance-industry bailout.)
I don't suppose there's any hope of getting a non-mouth-foaming Republican like Olympia Snowe to break ranks....
(For those who haven't heard, Lieberman has apparently convinced the D's to remove the "Medicare at 55" clause from last week's compromise, because if that clause goes in, he goes out. And once they've given him this, he'll find something else to demand, and he'll get that too. And something else, and something else, until the entire bill is just an insurance-industry bailout.)
I don't suppose there's any hope of getting a non-mouth-foaming Republican like Olympia Snowe to break ranks....