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...some things have changed. I mean, for instance you were very much against an individual mandate. Could you describe how your thinking has evolved on this issue as you've sort of gotten - and also at the time you defined success as universal coverage by the end of your first term. I feel pretty good that I've been pretty consistent on this. The individual mandate is probably the one area where I basically changed my mind. The more deeply I got into the issue, the more I felt that the dangers of adverse selection justified us creating a system...
...burden onto the government. That's been one of the concerns that I had originally during the debates with John McCain about completely eliminating the exclusion. The majority of people still get health insurance from their employers. For them to suddenly just lose that and get some sort of tax credit and have to go out on the open market would be a radical change that I think would increase people's vulnerability as opposed to increasing their security...
...think the fact that you're trying - on the one hand I thought trying to do this in a middle of a recession, when everybody is looking at people around them losing their jobs would sort of make people more anxious for something to grab onto that would seem secure. The polling would suggest that people - It's not true...
...wrong turn at the Thai border. This is Vang Vieng - a farm town turned full-moon party, smack in the middle of a communist state. Once a resting place for opium-addled sojourners on sweet, slow tours of the East, Vang Vieng is now a haven of a different sort. It has become a popular stopover for gap-year students on Southeast Asia's well-trodden holiday trail - and erstwhile young bankers spending some of that severance pay. Drug dens have given way to beach huts serving up candy-colored cocktails and blasting American pop. For about...
...troops withdrew from the cities last month and is most likely a nod to Iran's ayatullahs, who brand the group as terrorists, as does the U.S. Yet in the convoluted politics of the region, the U.S., despite having tagged the organization on its terrorist list, had been a sort of guarantor of the safety of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) because it was the enemy of its enemy Iran...