The chances for President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress to enact health reform is being weighed by a number of analysts, who are handicapping the outcome based on past and present experiences. The Washington Post columnist Abigail Trafford writes that Obama's struggles mirror that of the Clinton administration's experience in the mid-1990s. "The Obama and Clinton initiatives had very different strategies. Hillary Clinton and her team of wonks labored in secrecy to design a perfect bill; early on, they dissed members of Congress. ...
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