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"Another victory like this, and we are undone."

Thu, 10/08/2009 - 6:29pm — lambert

So said Pyrrhus, of the Pyrrhic Victory. And Professor Krugman:

So the odds now are that the [health care reform] thing hangs together, and reform is indeed enacted this year. It will be a highly flawed product; we’ll probably spend much of the next decade trying to fix it.

But it does look as if it’s going to happen. And that will be a huge victory for ["]progressives["].

In what universe does a policy that we know going in will take 10 years to fix get declared a victory?

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