In order to carry out the reconciliation shuffle, Democrats had to abandon their ambitions of putting overt price controls into their health care nationalization bill. That’s fortunate, because price controls are a complete disaster in Massachusetts. Naturally, Democrats are now working to bring Massachusetts’s woes to the rest of the country.
POSTSCRIPT: The additional irony is that the bill did contain price controls that will push up rates for most customers.
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