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The New Republic ’s Jonathan Chait says the benefits that Obama’s health care plan would provide to insurers are all in my imagination . Apparently I have let my emotions cloud my judgment on this matter. You see, “libertarians really like to think of themselves as scrappy underdogs and are far less comfortable [than conservatives] with the idea that they’re aligned with powerful economic interests.” That’s why “libertarians have an unusually strong emotional investment in the idea that their opposition to health care reform is a way of standing up to powerful interests like the insurance industry.” By contrast, progressives like Chait have no emotional investment whatsoever in the idea that their support for health care reform is a way of standing up to powerful interests like the insurance industry

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