Jake Tapper/factcheck.org on claims about the Koch Bros funded study on health care costs

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97. If it was not removed, we would not have gotten the votes to pass ACA in the Senate.

Lieberman said he would not vote for the ACA with a public option. The ACA finally passed in the Senate, by the bare minimum votes needed. Without Lieberman's vote, it would not have passed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act

So tell me, what would YOU have done?

Would you do the same thing Ted Kennedy did (and later said he regretted) decades earlier and hold out for the perfect legislation, while 45,000 Americans died each for lack of any health coverage whatsoever? The ACA, as imperfect as it was, expanded Medicare and covered the poor who were dying for lack of healthcare.

Were the realists wrong in choosing to pass the ACA?

Why are you blaming Democrats for the lack of a public option, instead of Republicans, and independents like Lieberman, who actually blocked it?