“The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.”
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Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.