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Obama film aims to re-write health care history
March 16, 2012
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the solution to them -- that it's hard to see how suggesting the opposite will do anything other than anger voters all over again.

In fact, the argument put forth here isn't even one the administration itself believed. As I report in my recent book on Obama and the economy, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had planned to refocus on jobs and the economy by September of 2009, but that became impossible because of the ongoing health care struggles. The year before, during the summer and fall of 2008, then-Senator Obama's political advisers pleaded with him to let go of
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