President Barack Obama has worked closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass health care reform and other measures, but there are a number of private-sector figures whose names appear more frequently in White House visitor records.

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So I guess the first thing I want to say is, just very quickly, I worked very hard with Senator Murray to pass and fight for small businesses for health care legislation reform, and you guys passed that, and I just have great respect for that.

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Democrats found it was neither easy nor safe to pass health care reform, and doing so obviously had something to do with their losses in the 2010 midterm elections.

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And many Americans, including rank-and-file Republicans, support new protections against insurers who turn away customers with pre-existing conditions or terminate policies when the costs of care pass annual limits.

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And the visitors finished strongly with Brown stretching for the line after taking the scoring pass from scrum-half Danny Care.

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If we fail now to pass cost-saving health care reform, we condemn generations of Americans to a life with little or no health care coverage under the status quo.

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As with health-care reform, at least a few more years will have to pass before any definitive judgment can be reached on its effectiveness.

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Popular wisdom says that some Senate Republicans will work with Democrats and help shape and pass a bill, something none of them did on health care reform.

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Senate Democrats, knowing that the bill would pass the panel with or without Republican support, have already started blending the legislation with another health care bill passed this summer by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

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