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Axelrod: Health Care Passed Because GOP Let Down Its Guard After Massachusetts

One of the president's closest advisers said on Tuesday that Republican opponents of health care reform let down their guard following Sen. Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts, in the process allowing Democrats and the administration to make a final, successful push for the bill. In an interview with the Huffington Post hours after the president signed health care reform into law, senior adviser David Axelrod pointed to that special election in late January as a pivotal point in the long path to passing legislation. "Some of the steam went out of the opposition after that," Axelrod said.

 

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