As the Senate prepares to pass its version of health-care reform legislation, Obama's advisers have portrayed a highly successful year pushing important bills through Congress, comparing his record to those of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, even as they note that Obama is operating in a more partisan time in Washington than those Democratic predecessors had.
The most important thing he did this year was to ensure that the financial system did not collapse.
Also, 30 million uninsured Americans are projected to receive coverage, estimated savings of more than $1 trillion over the next two decades, a "patients' bill of rights on steroids," and tax breaks to help small businesses pay for employee coverage. Those elements are in the House and Senate versions of the legislation; their competing proposals will have to be reconciled in conference committee next year.
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