Not since the New Deal

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10. Well

"In his last speech that everyone said was so combative, Obama was bragging how conservative his health reform is."

...in some aspects it's true. It's definitely not single-payer. Still, does anyone expect the President not to employ strategic arguments?

When Kaiser compared the health care law to the 1993 Republican bill, it did so accurately on the basis of a few issues, like the individual mandate.

There are significant differences in the health care law on some of the biggest issues, which Republicans would never support:

Expanding Medicaid (likely the root of the conservative challenge to the current law)

Eliminating the lifetime caps

MLR

Employer mandate (even Romney fought this in the MA bill)