>>>> Like him or dislike him, no one can say any longer that Obama can't get things done...He is a game changer.
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>>Stalin was a game changer too.
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>>Seriously, making health care a right sure tugs at the heartstrings.
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>>Too bad it does nothing to control costs and everything to encourage consumption.
>>How do you think that equation will end up?
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>I don't agree that is the equation. The main effort to control costs, a new plan to compete with private insurers, was shot down. (By conservatives, I mention only in passing).

I wasn't following the dispute closely, but why did they give in so much to the conservatives, when they voted it in without them anyway?