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What you couldnt and i couldnt. Thats why the process matters. You have both sides weighing in on significant issue. Its the largest Domestic Initiative in our history. Sitting at the table working for it you think about the Civil Rights Act and how it passed, that was bipartisan. Social security and medicare, how to gratify the constitution, giving the women are the right to vote. It is because the United States congresss willingness to work on landmark initiatives and that is not happening with the Affordable Care act. It should have been a process in which everybody was engaged on both sides. I wont get into the why it didnt, but unfortunately it didnt. Ultimately, people are paying the price today. Thats why i think so many people are saying, you know what, i prefer gridlock. With so many problems of the implementation, they say. Not that there wouldnt be as your problems with an initiative of this kind, but it would be less awesome because you have more interest to make sure it wo