As for health care, Obama‘s goal was an FDR- or LBJ-style comprehensive, systematic reform of the system. It was to be his Social Security, his Medicare. But Obama simply lacked a sufficiently broad mandate to pull off such a feat. If the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act seems less august than Social Security and Medicare, that’s because Obama‘s political position upon assuming the office was not as strong as FDR or LBJ‘s. More at RealClearPolitics – HorseRaceBlog…
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