Health Care Gives Way

WASHINGTON — President Obama drew sustained laughter from Congress, especially Democrats, on Wednesday when he declared in his State of the Union speech that “by now it should be fairly obvious that I didn’t take on health care because it was good politics.”But after spending 2009 emphasizing that a health care overhaul was his top domestic priority, Mr. Obama gave it much less prominence in his address. He did not mention it until more than half an hour in — a sign of how imperiled the bill has become.
In the last week, Democrats have vigorously debated among themselves how to salvage the legislation. Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Wednesday that the Senate would have to take the next step and make substantial changes in its bill before the House would act again.Next...

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