I agree. But for some perspective, the current ACA got passed within the 6 month period between Al Franken’s certification and Scott Brown’s election, when Democrats had 60 votes in the Senate. They needed all 60 votes to get cloture since not one Republican was willing to vote to “not filibuster”. This even involved bribes to some blue dogs like Ben Nelson in order to secure his vote and squeeze it through with 60 votes on Christmas Eve 2009. If the ACA was one ounce more progressive than it was, it might not have passed in the broken system we call the US Senate.
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