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...talk to you a little bit about just sort of the whole degree to which this is really a test of leadership, health care is, as much as anything. And last year at the news conference, when somebody asked you - it was almost a flip question - whose job is this, you said, "It's my job, I'm the President." But the fact is that no President has been able to pull off anything of this order of magnitude in 44 years. President Obama: Right...
...said that, I think in both circumstances, as President, you have to help make - help to make the case publicly, but then you also have to work through a wide range of divergent interests - geographical, ideological - and that involves combining firmness of purpose with some flexibility to get the job done. Whether we've struck that right balance we'll find out in the next couple of months...
...thing that a reformed system, as you see it, would change the dynamic of that decision? You know, first of all, unlike my mother, who had a difficult time with her cancer in part because her insurance was a little bit unreliable and she had just taken a new job, my grandmother had been signed up under Kaiser Permanente for years. And it's actually one of the models of high-quality, cost-efficient care that's out there right now, partly because they maintain such a stable base of patients and they construct a whole team approach that...
...just so appreciate you doing this. Well, I appreciate you. You've been doing a good job on the reporting on this...
...handling of foreign affairs and the economy. Americans were split evenly, 46% to 46%, when asked if they approved or disapproved of Obama's handling of health care. By contrast, 58% of the same respondents said they approved his foreign affairs management, while 51% approved of his job on the economy. (Read an interview with Obama about health care...