WASHINGTON -- The news last week that Democratic senators, led by an ailing but determined Ted Kennedy, are already laying the groundwork for a major revamping of the national health system may or may not be welcome news to Barack Obama. The move clearly indicates that the senators are expecting an Obama victory, with their party controlling Congress. And Obama, whose Senate aides have participated in Kennedy's planning sessions, has promised to provide universal coverage by the end of his first term. Yet the presumptive Democratic nominee knows that the last time the Democrats controlled the White House and Congress, in 1993-94, the party's agenda got so bogged down in healthcare that it not only failed to deliver on some other promises, it suffered an epic defeat in the midterm elections. Nonetheless, opportunities to...
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