"I think what CMS did here was to buy stability for the program, " said Dan Mendelson, president of the market analysis firm Avalere Health.

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And I think maybe this season he's remembered what he was here for.

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The President believes -- I think clearly, and as I've restated here -- that banks have an obligation to take responsibility for what was caused for their role in that, and to step up to the plate now and be part of positive economic reform and positive economic recovery.

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