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...while, you have a chance to vindicate all those best hopes you had about yourself ... And this is one of those moments. This is one of those times where you can honestly say to yourself, Doggone it, this is exactly why I came here." (See the top 10 health care reform...
...American politics. It makes significant progress on other issues - financial reform, immigration, perhaps even the reduced use of carbon fuels - more plausible. It may give Obama new stature overseas, in a world that was beginning to wonder about his ability to use power. Of course, if he doesn't carefully read the lessons of this excruciating passage, it could lead to hubris and overreach. The President's weaknesses - his isolation, his tendency to mediate rather than lead - are less evident in victory, but it remains to be seen if this experience has mitigated them. (See the top 10 players...
...House Democrats, and, for many of them, it was - politically. But in another way, it wasn't: it was ground zero of what being a Democrat has meant for the past 80 years. It rectified an astonishing injustice in American life: most of the nonworking poor are guaranteed health care, through Medicaid, but the working poor are not, unless they're lucky enough to have an employer who provides it. Another injustice: insurance companies determine who receives coverage and can deny it at will. For Democrats, this represented a gaping hole in the social safety net. Arguments about the details...
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...Republicans, the issue was more complicated. There was the essential conservative allergy to new government programs. But the existing health care system was an unholy mess, inefficient and costly - especially the segments run by the government, Medicare and Medicaid. It placed an unfair burden on employers, who were assumed to be health-insurance providers of the first resort, and an unfair legal burden on doctors. Substantial numbers of Republicans had always favored reform, even archconservatives: 20 years ago, the Heritage Foundation's Stuart Butler came up with a plan to provide universal coverage, paying for it by replacing...