Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

A Congress That Can't Make Anything Easy

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October 18, 2017 at 9:59 AM EDT

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Time for another test of whether this Congress can do the easy things -- on health care this time.

Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington have reached a deal to "fix" the Affordable Care Act -- a seemingly reasonable agreement designed, in very general terms, to help the insurance markets work better while giving states more flexibility to administer things.

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