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Writing in The Huffington Post, Sam Stein reports on the role that the Obama White House played in the passage of health reform. Notes Stein:

Removed from the heat of the battle, the question is easier to answer. Obama, at his core, saw and continues to see legislating as a distinctly political process: one in which goals are imparted, building blocks are set, and compromises are fair game on everything but success itself. His legislative doctrine is not static. As Dunn acknowledged, it became a “more aggressive operation” over time. But it is firmly rooted in the ethos that guided the presidential campaign — an ethos that one administration official described as “The Art of the Possible.”

Meanwhile, the PBS series Frontline recently devoted 60 minutes to explaining the bill’s passage.