Obama's Road to Health Care Reform

President Barack Obama and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., enter the East Room of the White House, to attend a Health Care Summit with Members of Congress on March 5, 2009, in Washington.

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Health Care Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 5, 2009.

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President Barack Obama walks down the South Lawn sidewalk with Members of Congress en route to a press statement, following their meeting on health care in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on May, 13 2009.

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President Barack Obama meets with Senate Democrats to discuss health care in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on June 2, 2009.

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President Barack Obama discusses health care during a briefing with staff in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, June 18, 2009.

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President Barack Obama greets Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius during a meeting with governors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on June 24, 2009.

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President Barack Obama meets with nurses and Members of Congress in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, prior to a health care event on July 15, 2009.

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President Barack Obama answers questions during a health care town hall meeting at Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland on July 23, 2009.

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President Barack Obama and head speechwriter Jon Favreau edit a speech on health care in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Sept. 9, 2009, in preparation for the president's address to a joint session of Congress.

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President Barack Obama meets with, from left, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senior Advisor David Axelrod, Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office for Health Reform, and Phil Schiliro, assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, regarding the impending health care vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Nov. 7, 2009.

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President Barack Obama hugs House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Cannon House Office Building at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Nov. 7, 2009. The President delivered remarks regarding the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

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President Barack Obama meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., during a health care meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 5, 2010. Senate leaders joined in the meeting via telephone.

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President Barack Obama pauses during a health care meeting with Members of Congress in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 15, 2010. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., is seated at left.

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President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors on health care strategy in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Jan. 20, 2010. Attending, from left, are Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, director of Communications Dan Pfeiffer, Phil Schiliro, assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, and Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office for Health Reform.

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President Barack Obama discusses a point with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, during the nationally televised bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform at Blair House in Washington on Feb. 25, 2010.

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President Barack Obama fist-bumps a medical professional in the Green Room of the White House, prior to the start of a health care event, March 3, 2010, in Washington.

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President Barack Obama speaks about health care insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., March 8, 2010.

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President Barack Obama meets with Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, aboard Air Force One en route to Cleveland on March 15, 2010.

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President Barack Obama discusses health care reform during a meeting with senior advisers in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 18, 2010.

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President Barack Obama discusses health care strategy with Phil Schiliro, assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 19, 2010.

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President Barack Obama talks on the phone with a Member of Congress while en route to a health care event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., on March 19, 2010. Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro rides with the President.

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President Barack Obama calls a Member of Congress about health care reform from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 19, 2010.

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President Barack Obama walks through the Outer Oval Office in between health care meetings, March 20, 2010, at the White House in Washington.

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Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office for Health Reform, talks with Dan Meltzer, principal deputy counsel, as President Barack Obama calls a Member of Congress in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 20, 2010. Seated on the couch, from left, are Bob Bauer, counsel to the President, Phil Schiliro, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, and Danielle Gray, associate counsel to the President.

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President Barack Obama talks with Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office for Health Reform, and Dan Turton, deputy director of Legislative Affairs, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 20, 2010.

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President Barack Obama listens to Phil Schiliro, assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, during a meeting on health care in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 21, 2010. Katie Johnson, the President's personal secretary, stands in the background.

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President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and senior staff, react in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, as the House passes the health care reform bill on March 21, 2010, in Washington.

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Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, and others, look on as President Barack Obama signs the heath care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 23, 2010.

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