>>>>> 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).
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>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?

Because there was enough concern about hanging onto the Democrats that they hoped to pick up a Repub or two. That's where the real giveaways were, to Democrats and grandstanding SOBs like Joe Lieberman.