Obama Strategy on Health Care Legislation Appears to Be Paying Off

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Obama Strategy on Health Care Legislation Appears to Be Paying Off
By ROBERT PEAR and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

After earlier fits and starts, legislation to insure nearly all Americans is approaching votes in the House and in the Senate.

After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama’s arms-length strategy on health care appears to be paying dividends, with the House and the Senate poised to take up legislation to insure nearly all Americans.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/health/policy/02health.html?ref=us

[joeycola]

1. "afffordibility" is the issue now and will continue to be.

[nightrain]

2. health INSURANCE reform is NOT what Obama campaigned on

A mandate to purchase expensive insurance was not part of "Change We Can Believe In".

There is a wide gulf between health insurance reform and provision of healthcare within an actual healthcare system. We have no "system", we have a "market", owned by ______.

[AndyA]

3. +1.

I still hope that the mandate will change before the final version. That is a very unpopular aspect of the current health reform plans. Making it affordable so people want to sign up is the key, and that will provide the competition necessary to bring down prices.

[bemildred]

4. Just one more Friedman unit. nt