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Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety member Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, questions witnesses, during a Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety hearing on "Coal Miners' Struggle for Justic... Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety member Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, questions witnesses, during a Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety hearing on "Coal Miners' Struggle for Justice: How Unethical Legal and Medical Practices Stack the Deck Against Black Lung Claimants" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Robert Bailey, 61, a retired coal miner from Princeton, W.Va., who suffers from black lung disease has urged Congress to help clear a backlog of claims of fellow miners who have the disease. (AP Photo) MORE LESS Retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), who helped oversee the drafting of the Affordable Care Act, lamented in a recent interview that the law had become compromised amid the political turmoil that surrounded its passage. He also expressed regret that the law didn’t include liberal policies like a single-payer health care system or a public health insurance plan, as many had hoped it would in the early stages. The latter comment reflects those made recently by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who said that health care reform “should have come later” after Democrats took control of Congress and the White House in 2009. You had Joe Lieberman, Arlen Specter, Mary Landrieu, Mark Pryor, and Max Baucus on board for a single-payer health care bill? I don’t believe you. Those people wouldn’t even go along with a Medicare expansion, but they were going to vote for single-payer health care? 4. And those comments don’t “reflect” what Chuck Schumer said at all. They are the polar opposite of what Chuck Schumer said. Schumer’s argument is that the Democrats shouldn’t have done health care. Harkin argues they should have gone even bigger on health care. 5. This may be why Max Baucus is the most expensive American in its history. He was the perfect target for capture, simply aligning with the insurers, allowing $1.2 trillion a year in free-riding to continue and tossing overboard the obvious (at least to any other advanced economy) solution of universal coverage and issuing everybody a chipcard. Diese Sandalen geben Halt und sehen gut ausEin Sommer-Look, der nicht nur gut aussieht, sondern sich auch bei längeren Wegen angenehm tragen lässt.Gesundheits-Insider Magazin Kardiologe: „Wenn Sie Fett am Bauch haben, machen Sie das täglich." (Keine Diät)Das ist wie eine Hochdruckreinigung für Ihre Leberreinergesundheitsschub.de We're happy you've been reading TPM, but would be thrilled if today was the day you became a member. Last year, the average non-member reader contribution to the Journalism Fund was $38. This is incredibly generous, but contributions are not the same as memberships and don't provide access to all the exclusive features that memberships do. So this year, rather than ask our non-members to contribute to the Journalism Fund, we're offering full-access annual membership for only $38. That's a savings of nearly 50%.