Obama didn't do that. Most of the intel that led to OBL going down came from the Bush administration years. Obama more or less signed the order. He personally did basically nothing that wasn't already long in the works. Everything the Bush admin did was based on intel. The same intel the dems saw that caused them to vote for the war, along with everyone else. It turned out to be bad intel largely, but that was what they had to operate under. It is easy to brush it all under the rug with catchy, but patently false, slogans like "Bush lied, people died", but it doesn't help anything or change the facts. This whole issue was hashed and rehashed ad nauseum on this board before I went on sabatical.
So back to the topic at hand, I couldn't believe that a family of 5 would have to pay $1000 per month for the most basic plan available in my state. I have always had a plan through my insurance at work, so I am not that familiar with the private insurance plan market, but from what we were looking at last summer that is very steep. Has it always been near that expensive? And how can people say that at $1000 that is better than either a bare-bones coverage or none at all for some families, when that would mean the difference between eating or not for some families. I guess I just didn't see enough of the "before" to understand how great the "after" now is.