Harkin - "We Shouldn't Have Done Obamacare"

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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.

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.

“What we did is we muddled through and we got a system that is complex, convoluted, needs probably some corrections and still rewards the insurance companies extensively,” he added.

“We had the votes in ’09. We had a huge majority in the House, we had 60 votes in the Senate,” he said.

This would be funny if it weren't so sad.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/2...hout-obamacare

I wonder if the forum members who posted comments like "this is better than what we had before" would be willing to double - down and repost those comments in this thread.