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Ezra Klein: “It took on the Inflation Reduction act, which is doing the…”

Featuring: Ezra Klein, Liberal | New York Times Columnist and Podcast Host | National

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In-Studio Discussion with Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsom on 'Abundance' and Democratic Governance

Published | Video Starts at 36:15

Medicare delivered Medicare cards a year after they passed that bill. It took the Affordable Care act four years to begin delivering actual insurance. Yeah, we can talk about that. It took on the Inflation Reduction act, which is doing the much smaller job of just beginning to negotiate prices on some drugs, three years to get that started. I mean, we built. I mean, these are the classic examples, but we built the Empire State Building in a year. The average environmental review takes four and a half years. (36:15–36:23)

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